Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… © The Trustees of the British Museum, 1851,0901.241. 1 . See Valérie Capdeville, ‘Clubbability: A Revolution in London Sociability?’, Lumen (vol. 35, 2016), p. 63-80, and Valérie Capdeville, ‘Noise and Sound Reconciled: How London Clubs … a young MP for Stafford, a prosperous manufacturing borough. In the springtime of life, he understood the importance of sociability as an essential trait to artistic and political effective leadership and influence. He initiated … Whig fraternity with Fox and William Windham (1750-1810) and Edmund Burke, Dublin-born like him (1729-1797). Sheridan’s sociability (he was smiled on by royalty, being a close friend, in his youth, of George, Prince of Wales, the future …
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