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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., … … Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., …
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… Johnson. He enjoyed, too, the company of intelligent upper-class women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for … not helped by this insistence that he study law and enter the legal profession. He found some alleviation in the pleasures of the Edinburgh cultural scene, including the theatre, alcohol and an affair with an actress. These, and … when enjoying the society of his fellow beings, including intelligent or instructive or amusing conversation, the sheer pleasure of being with a person or people for whom he felt affection or respect, and flirting. Boswell’s taste in women …
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… while gin shops only sold liquor. 4 . Lee Jackson, ‘The Gin Palace; or, The Abodes of Suicide’, in Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment (New Haven: Yale …
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