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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs like White’s and Brooks’s became favourite places for inveterate gamblers such as Horace Walpole, George Augustus Selwyn or Charles James Fox (see entry Betting book ). William Hogarth, ‘A Rake’s Progress’. … wore high-crowned hats with broad brims and adorned with flowers and ribbons, masks to conceal their emotions. 15 15 . Horace Walpole, The Last Journals of Horace Walpole During the Reign of George III, from 1771-1783, 2 vols. (London New …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… deeds – wooing the Czarina by pretending to be Charles XII and flogging penitents in the Sistine Chapel – stem from Horace Walpole (1717-1797), 12 whose lifelong antipathy towards Dashwood makes him figure as a less reliable source. While … it must have happened during or shortly after Dashwood’s Divan Club, which held its last meeting on May 25 th 1746. 12 . Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third Vol. 1, 2018 [1845], p. 172f. 13 . Nathaniel Wraxall, …
Blasphemy | Clubs | Masculinity | Sex
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