Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… remove themselves from the public eye rather than carouse in the streets – a withdrawal that only set the rumor mills of London to churn more heavily and has led contemporaries as well as historians to difficulties teasing apart legends from … worthiest Men of these Times’. 3 2 . Evelyn Lord, The Hell-Fire Clubs. Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 50. 3 . Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Journal, 11 Feb. 1752. The first known … to impose was defeated – unsurprisingly, Wharton himself had spoken passionately against it – but it nevertheless set London’s press aflame. On May 6 th 1721, the Tory newspaper Applebee’s identified atheism as the prevailing problem of …
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