Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… hone their rhetorical skills. There was a clear link between debating societies, elocution and eloquence. There was a market for the taste for eloquence. Elocution masters, and even schools thrived. ‘There is some evidence, as well, that …
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