Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… 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 reference to the … 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 the time, … University of Cambridge, 2008), p. 102. 11 . Peter Clark, British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), p. 71. Undoubtedly, however, the most famous Hell-fire Club belonged to Sir Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), …
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