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Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… shops, coffeehouses and brothels. The patent theatres in Drury Lane and Covent Garden were patrician but also plebeian spaces. The early modern West End became a place that shaped the public sphere through sites of discussion, encounter and … could take refreshment. 2 Booksellers and art auctions became common sights on the Strand in the eighteenth century, spaces that helped construct an intelligentsia. 3 The promotion of luxury was augmented at the beginning of the … Queen's Theatre, depending on who was on the throne). Its high prices maintained exclusivity. As well as music it was a space for courtship, for flirting and, above all, for gossip. People would move between boxes which were a site for …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… foreign ones, were impressed by the park’s beauty and size, and commented on its popularity as a sociable public space. One visitor remarked that it was the place ‘where Court and the Beau Monde meet ‘, 5 and another that on Sunday … 1784), p. 85-86; Laura Williams, ‘‘To recreate and refresh their dulled spirits in the sweet and Wholesome ayre’: green space and the growth of the city‘, in J. F. Merritt (ed.), Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions of the City from …
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