… Nocturnal Revels (1779). Chrysal in particular speaks of ‘dissertations of such gross lewdness, and daring impiety, as despair may be supposed to dictate to the damn’d’, 17 indicating that ‘the end of their meeting was to worship the …
… 12 Anne Lister’s Yorkshire diary shows her repeatedly concerned about the coarseness of her associates, despairing of finding a circle in which she would be comfortable, and alienated from her father by his ’vulgarity.’ 13 11 …
… over from public ones, as shown by the case of the Elliots in Persuasion who went to Bath to settle permanently, to the despair of Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of the family. The exploitation of its Roman and Georgian pasts became an …