Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Dashwood’s life highlights the importance of traveling to London’s eighteenth-century club scene, specifically how the impressions gathered in other countries influenced the practices of the clubs he founded; on the other hand, his … to the creation of the Divan Club. Despite these inspirations, travelling also cast Dashwood in a rakish light, an impression that would follow him even beyond his death. Grand Tours were not only opportunities for aristocratic youths to … (174f). 4 . Evelyn Lord, The Hell-Fire Clubs. Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 87. 5 . Patrick Woodland, ‘Dashwood, Francis’ in Brian Harrison and H. C. G. Matthew (ed.), Oxford …
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