Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… 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, stating that ‘it is no raising … Online, https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oseo/instance.00053836), vol. 2, p. 38. 9 . Geoffrey Ashe, The Hell-Fire Clubs: A History of Anti-Morality (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2000), p. 59. Some scholars such as David Stephen … any case, the abbey was leased only until 1778, so that year marks the definitive end of Dashwood’s Hell-fire Club. Its story, however, lives on, having subtly inspired Jane Austen’s Dashwood family in Sense and Sensibility (1811) and …
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