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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… tavern or a crack in the wig club’, 1793, © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0808.6282. Sheridan belonged to a family proud of their Irish identity and yet struggling between British and Irish loyalties for Robert Jones. 8 His … Dublin, was a well-known Irish actor and theatre manager of Smock Alley in Dublin, before moving to London with his family and befriending among others David Garrick and Charles Macklin. His mother, Frances (born Chamberlain) was a …
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Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… mixed audiences and couples who frequented debating societies, an increasing number of nights were devoted to social and family issues like marriage and courtship, with questions like: ‘Which is the more eligible for a wife, a lady of fortune …
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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… flourished in what then passed as largely male territory. But he also enjoyed the society of women, both singly and in a family situation. Such company included friends like Dr and Mrs Taylor in Ashbourne, where Johnson had almost the freedom …
Celebrity | Conversation | Depression | Clubs | Fame | Gender
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Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]
… in the aftermath of the Women’s Bread March on Versailles (October 5-6, 1789), which resulted in forcing the royal family to decamp and live in Paris. The National Assembly followed. The club’s initial name, Société de la Révolution , …
Clubs | Crime | Debate | Democracy | French Revolution | Gender | Law | Politics | Sovereignty | State | Violence
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… definitive end of Dashwood’s Hell-fire Club. Its story, however, lives on, having subtly inspired Jane Austen’s Dashwood family in Sense and Sensibility (1811) and multiple contemporary pop cultural depictions as well. 22 Indeed, over time, …
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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