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The Young Lady's Pocket Library (1793) [ Practices ]
Laughter | Women | Theatre | Entertainement | Family
Anthology
Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… practice of betting and testifies both to the playful and conflictual form of sociable interactions. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Keywords Conflict Conviviality Gambling Gentleman The betting book is the material expression of the … between the expectations of gentlemanly politeness and aristocratic honour and the potential dangers of addictive gaming, excessive gossip, and other types of unruly behaviour. 12 . Amy Milne-Smith, ‘Club Talk: Gossip, Masculinity and …
Conflict | Conviviality | Gambling | Gentleman
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A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (1712) [ Concepts ]
Corruption | Eloquence
Anthology
Spas [ Health ]
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
Diaries | Family | Hospitality | Navy | Patronage
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… (Boswell 528). In a telling aside, reporting a conversation that took place on 5th April, 1776, on the subject of gaming, Boswell first reports Johnson’s characteristic opening gambit: ‘He would begin thus: ‘Why, Sir, as to the good or …
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