Grub Street
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… occasionally also be expressive of the defiant attitude of those who were suspected or accused of belonging to that new class of mercenary ‘writers for hire’. Originally, Grub Street was a real place, an existing street in London in the …
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Kit-Cat Club
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… 7 They also saw themselves as educators of the ‘middling sort’, funding several translations of Greek and Latin classics into English, or the production of ‘native’ operas with English themes and English-language libretti. 8 A remarkably consistent Protestant Whig aesthetic emerged, based on modification (as they saw it, ‘moderation’) of neoclassical Continental models by elements loosely taken from English history, romance or folk tradition – such as long …
… Other members of the ‘Saturday’s Literati’ included Pepys’s cousin by marriage Thomas Gale (a fellow antiquarian), the classicist Richard Bentley, and Hans Sloane (Pepys’s doctor and a man whose own collections would go on to form the basis …
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Patronage
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… them from the necessity of relying on a single patron. This was further helped by a growing interest within the middle class in musical accomplishments (itself driven by fashions of sociability), which led to a steadily rising demand for …
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