Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… as ‘a Magnificent Coffee-Room and a School of Oratory […] the great desideratum of our Country’ (Appleton 98), a tavern-cum-lecture hall which was for Kristina Straub ‘important to the development of British debating societies and a … useful and entertaining to society,’ were there to ‘be lectured upon, and freely debated’ (Straub 401). 10 In the Tavern, after a dinner, Macklin would give a lecture on one of the aforesaid subjects and questions, and debates with the …
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