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Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… abound about Dashwood’s multiple stays in Italy and his later visit to St. Petersburg. They mostly stem from Walpole’s Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third (1845), their veracity called into question due to Walpole’s inveterately … […] a coarse, blunt manner of speaking’, adding that his style ‘appeared naked, vulgar, and irreverent’. Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. What can be relied on with more certainty is … The Kensal Press, 1982). Mannix, Daniel P., The Hell-Fire Club (New York: Ballantine Books, 1959). Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, 4 vols. [1845] (2018), vol. I, p. 171-175. In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology …
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… his observations of Vesuvius, where they were read aloud, together with drawings and rock samples. In letters and memoirs, visitors recalled their own reactions and those of the people who accompanied them in Sir William’s volcanic … Le Brun 175). Sir William organized other spectacles during the daytime. Vigé Le Brun and Goethe both relate in their memoirs that Sir William hired young boys to splash in the shallow waters by his seaside Casino in Posillipo (Vigée Le …
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