Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… many others. The Kit-Cat, and the ‘polite’ norms that its members fashioned and then disseminated nationwide through journals such as The Spectator (1711-12, 1714), profoundly shaped the course of British sociability and national … their own experiences at Kit-Cat dinners (and in coffee-houses), which in turn were imitated by many clubs that these journals’ readers established across Britain and the British empire. A particular ideal of an English gentleman – …
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