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… that translating the sociability of clubs onto paper could eventually serve as a pedagogical model for European elite sociability. This is evidenced by the Swiss Société du comte de la Lippe, a club of erudites meeting every saturday … they claimed that true male sociability was socially mixed, British, urban, and Whig. 8 8 . As opposed to the landed elite and freeholders who had the reputation of being Tories. Essay periodical also defined commercial sociability in a … two-penny club, 9 the ugly club, 10 etc., laughing at the aspirations and vanity of their members who foolishly aped elite and political institutions like the Kit Cat or the October clubs. 9 . The Spectator n° 9, vol. 1, p. 43. 10 . The …
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