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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of Vaux Hall Gardens (1751). Victoria and Albert Museum. Résumé Vauxhall was one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Its architecture and spatial organization … ranging from open spaces and cultural venues to more intimate structures. It became one of the major pleasure gardens in London from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century. Soon after the opening, the essayist John … known as ‘ Vauxhall ‘ though it officially took the name only in 1785. This new garden was more distant from central London, in the rural suburb of Lambeth to the South, on the right bank of the Thames which was outside London: it was …
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William Gilpin and picturesque unsociability [ Art and Literature ]
… 1812) by Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827) taken from [W. Combe], The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, London 1812, pl.20. Image Henry Walton, 'William Gilpin', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 4418, 1781. Résumé William Gilpin’s name is commonly associated with the notion of the picturesque. If his … his posterity … together with an account of the author, by himself: and a pedigree of the Gilpin family, ed. W. Jackson (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1879), p. 147-148. An unsociable relative and friend William Gilpin’s letters to his son and …
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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… in the evening which could easily extend on to nighttime. The most famous pleasure gardens of the era were located in London (Vauxhall, on the South Bank, or Ranelagh, in Chelsea), with other smaller but also frequently visited venues … Burney, Smollet). 3 . Hannah Greig, ‘’All Together and All Distinct’: Public Sociability and Social Exclusivity in London’s Pleasure Gardens 1740-1800’, Journal of British Studies (51, January 2012), p. 51. 4 . see Jonathan Conlin, ‘Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859’ Journal of British Studies (vol. 45, No. 4, October 2006), p. 718-743. Prints like the …
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John Keats [ Art and Literature ]
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Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… 1 . Lyonell Beacher, Wonders if not miracles, or, A relation of the wonderful performances of Vanlentine Gertrux. (London: 1665). https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A27152.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=fulltext, p. 7. Although a minor event … Greatrakes, A Brief Account of Mr Valentine Greatrak's And DIvers of the Strange Cures By him lately Performed (London: J. Downing, 1723), p.28 3 . See Eamon Duffy, ‘Valentine Greatrakes, the Irish Stroker: Miracle, Science, and … England. That Greatrakes was ‘ [t]he great discourse now at the Coffee-Houses and every where’ in 1666, when he was in London to perform his prodigious cures, is testified by Joseph Glanvill, in a letter to Robert Hunt esq.: Mr. …
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