Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… himself had spoken passionately against it – but it nevertheless set London’s press aflame. On May 6 th 1721, the Tory newspaper Applebee’s identified atheism as the prevailing problem of the time, stating that ‘it is no raising Sedition, … and societies of eighteenth-century Britain. 21 . Morning Post, 22 Aug. 1776 (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection at gale.com). 22 . Janine Barchas, ‘Hell-Fire Jane: Austen and the Dashwoods of West Wycombe,’ …
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