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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1795), p. 65. Access The assembly rooms were maintained through regular subscriptions from local residents and visitors to the town, a subscription which covered a series of assemblies for the year as well as refreshments. The presence of a subscription fee demarcates assembly rooms as elite, exclusive spaces open to those who could afford to pay. The …
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Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… Heidegger became manager of the Haymarket Opera House, and it was there that he organised his masquerades. These were subscription-based, attracted crowds of several hundred participants and enjoyed the support of the royalty. In the first …
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… range of philanthropic, social, and cultural activities’. These ranged from ‘rescuing fallen women […] to organising subscriptions for publishing works by deserving authors’ 4 ,especially female authors in the case of Montagu. In 1781, at …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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