Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… Riding, Hogarth (London: Tate Publishing, 2007), p. 190-192. The ways in which gin was sold also provoked alarm. Women and servants could pick up a bottle at a chandler’s shop with their groceries or from street vendors - often women who sold individual drams as well as quartern bottles. So, gin was often consumed by solitary tipplers. It was also …
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