Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among many others. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Friendship Merchants Patronage Whigs The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) … (1675-1749) and his anti-Walpole faction at Stowe. Modus Operandi The Kit-Cat was part of a re-centring of British culture and sociability away from the Court in the pre-Georgian period. Their patronage was usually by means of … Oudenarde in 1708, and a lavish edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1717). Impact The Club’s impact was felt in Britain’s culture, politics and practices of sociability. Despite its focus on catalysing a cultural renaissance, however, many of …
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