Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… meetings or membership survive. A semi-reliable contemporary recorded that it was first convened at the Cat and Fiddle Tavern on Gray’s Inn Lane, owned by a pastry-maker named Christopher (Kit) Cat (or Catling) and that the meetings dined … and its revels sometimes extended until three in the morning. 3 It met primarily in private upstairs rooms of taverns in central London or Hampstead, which locates the Club’s sociability between the public and private spheres. … remained aloof from membership. 9 . The Golden Age Revers’d (London: 1703) In 1703, the Kit-Cat moved to The Fountain tavern on the Strand and the Upper Flask tavern in Hampstead for summer meetings. By 1704 Anne’s attitude was softening …
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