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Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… his Journals , recalling Sheridan’s propensity for drinking, ‘Let me begin the evening with Sheridan [...] Sheridan for dinner […] Sheridan for claret or port […] Sheridan was a grenadier company of lifeguards’ ; ‘ Sheridan’s humour, or …
Anglo-Irishness | Clubs | Duelling | Politics | Whigs
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West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… deportment and a form of self-fashioning based upon appreciation of art, literature and music. Like the opera, balls and dinner parties underpinned an elaborate marriage market that allowed the elite to renew itself. As Hannah Greig shows, …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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