Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… ghost of a rotten borough, appearing on the hustings of Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1948,0214.708, 1807. Image James Gillray, ‘View of the Husting in Covent Garden’, The British Museum, 1851,0901.1222, 1806. Résumé Covent Garden lay … era for sites of indoor sociability, often frequented by writers, artists, actors and patrons of the theatre, the actor Charles Macklin even establishing his own Piazza Coffee House in 1754. Famed literary regulars in the Covent Garden … influence of London and Middlesex radicalism embodied by John Wilkes, although it was with the election of Charles James Fox in 1780 that political issues overtook family interests as the principal driver of electoral outcomes. Fox’s speeches …
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