Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Kit-Cat admission of Sir Henry Furnese (1658-1712), a ‘money man’ deeply invested in the War who hosted a celebratory dinner at a City guild hall. After the Whig fall in 1710, Kit-Cat dinners once again operated as an informal centre of opposition. They saw their gatherings as sustaining rights of free … and The Spectator Club in The Spectator can both be seen as fictional variations upon their own experiences at Kit-Cat dinners (and in coffee-houses), which in turn were imitated by many clubs that these journals’ readers established across …
Friendship | Merchants | Patronage | Whigs
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