Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… but was denounced as anti-social. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords Clubs Duelling Gaming Gentleman Horseracing Suicide From the Restoration to the first decade of the Victorian era, gaming and gambling spread through all ranks of … and acquire social prestige. 16 . On honour, see for instance Donna Andrew, Aristocratic Vices. The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), chapter 1. 17 . … immoderate pleasures as direct consequences of the English melancholy, the connection between gambling, duelling and suicide was made explicit from the middle of the eighteenth century: 24 'gaming is one of the principal causes of duels …
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