Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… occurred before or after Dashwood’s journey to St. Petersburg. The meetings took place in an exclusively homosocial space, and the shape of their ballot box, the circular aperture of which is located right between the legs of ‘a female … (Redford 4), initiation rites, and its members dressing up in togas. 13 Dashwood’s membership with the Dilettanti spanned more than thirty-five years, and during that time he ‘sat on nearly all its important committees’ (Kemp 101), … the discovery of the Brotherhood in 1763 and threw Grub Street into a frenzy, thrusting Dashwood into the spotlight. Newspaper articles such as Wilkes’ piece in the Public Advertiser of June 2 nd 1763, or later the Town and Country Magazine …
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