Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… best known for inciting the lurid imagination of Grub Street through the creation of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, a secret society which has since come to be known as the Hell-fire Club. Thus, on the one hand, Dashwood’s life highlights the … travelled to Russia in hopes of captivating the Czarina’ (174f). 4 . Evelyn Lord, The Hell-Fire Clubs. Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2010), p. 87. 5 . Patrick Woodland, ‘Dashwood, Francis’ in …
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