Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among many others. People > Association Practices > … the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson ’s Club, among many others. The Kit-Cat, and the ‘polite’ … as ‘a Compound’ in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Guardian (20 April 1713). Remnants Today None of the original venues of the Kit-Cat Club remain. Markers and memorials of various kinds, however, remain to be found at Stowe House and …
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