Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… abound about Dashwood’s multiple stays in Italy and his later visit to St. Petersburg. They mostly stem from Walpole ’s Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third (1845), their veracity called into question due to Walpole’s inveterately … […] a coarse, blunt manner of speaking’, adding that his style ‘appeared naked, vulgar, and irreverent’. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. What can be relied on with more certainty is … The Kensal Press, 1982). Mannix, Daniel P., The Hell-Fire Club (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959). Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, 4 vols. [1845] (2018), vol. I, p. 171-175. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology …
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