Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… than the amusement of our persons of quality.' 5 Gambling was also popular with women who, long excluded from independent economic and political activity, found in such rituals a sphere of influence in their role as the arbiters of … Europe. In England, it was soon rivalled by Whist . Whist or Whisk was born in England in 1687. Gentlemen from the West End only appropriated it at the beginning of the eighteenthcentury, thus creating a fashion among worldly circles. … England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), chapter 1. 17 . Gerda Reith, The Age of Chance: Gambling in Western Culture (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 65. Yet, some great gambling figures experienced unequal social success, …
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