Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]
… in the townhouses of the nobility or city festivities for the merchant classes. The pleasure gardens offered new public spaces corresponding to Enlightenment forms of urban culture and sociability: places of ‘politeness’ – the new social … these shows but also to play their parts in the eyes of others. 1 1 . Ogborn, Miles, ‘The Pleasure Garden’, in Ogborn, Spaces of Modernity: London’s Geographies 1660-1780 (New York: Guilford, 1998), p. 116-157. Ranelagh was to the …
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