… urban growth, sociability and the circulation of pocket directories. Directories were part of a booming market of services and products which catered to the needs of the emerging middling sort . Some were organised in an alphabetical … their allies could take stock, sing their own praises, and express their demands.’ 15 13 . Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale, 2013). 14 . The Times, …