… and service and goods, who occupied houses or apartments there is testimony to the centrality of St James’s to social networks and alliances. 1 . Andrew Saint and Gillian Darley, The Chronicles of London (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, …
… class and gender but they also shaped new kinds of distinctly urban culture. New forms of sociability emerged around the networks offered by luxury entertainment and retail. Pierce Egan's novel Life in London (1821) expressed the way in which …