Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… gothic ruins or old castellar features added to baroque architecture (cf. Kimbolton Castle) or garden design (cf. Stowe Gardens). Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays … at Houghton and Eastbury, or those of Sir Richard Temple, Viscount Cobham (1675-1749) and his anti-Walpole faction at Stowe. Modus Operandi The Kit-Cat was part of a re-centring of British culture and sociability away from the Court in the … the original venues of the Kit-Cat Club remain. Markers and memorials of various kinds, however, remain to be found at Stowe House and Gardens, at The Savoy Hotel on the Strand (former location of The Fountain Tavern), at 89 Holly Bush …
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