Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Wycombe and the founding of the Dilettanti – Dashwood’s tour to Greece and Turkey saw him indulge in fantasies of the Orient, leading directly to the creation of the Divan Club. Despite these inspirations, travelling also cast Dashwood in … the prerequisite for membership was to have visited the country in question. The members enjoyed dressing up in oriental garb, calling the minute book the ‘Al Koran’ and themselves by specific names such as ‘Hasnadar’, ‘Reis … this club a rarity in eighteenth-century London. 14 . Rachel Finnegan, ‘The Divan Club, 1744-46’ Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies 10.9, 2006, p. 21. Nevertheless, rumors swirled about the Divan club, and perhaps this was the reason …
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