Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Dashwood ‘had travelled to Russia in hopes of captivating the Czarina’ (174f). 4 . Evelyn Lord, The Hell-Fire Clubs. Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 87. 5 . Patrick Woodland, … Dashwood spent all his days with a Mrs. D’Arcie (cited in Lord 89), point at the very least to a grain of truth in the sexual rumors, if not to the lurid hearsay spread about him by Walpole and others. 7 . The first detailed account of St. … of Medmenham’s cellar-books do hint at ample drinking, 17 and at least some clues indicate the presence of women and sex. Moreover, they seem to have held readings of satirical, occult, and pornographic literature, some of the library’s …
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