Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of increasingly spectacular entertainment were added as they became available, so that they public could keep pace with novelties; this helped Vauxhall to compete with other gardens. A rehearsal of Handel’s Fireworks Music took place in … Garnerin gave a balloon demonstration in 1802. On account of such expenses, the fee was raised to two shillings in 1792. Novels show that such forms of mixed sociability attracted diverging responses. Opposed views of Vauxhall are given, as … expected, by the unsociable disgruntled uncle Matthew Bramble and by his petulant niece Lydia in Smollett’s epistolary novel Humphry Clinker (1771). Matthew Bramble (29 May) writes that ‘Vauxhall is a composition of baubles [… ] seemingly …
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