Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… to describe Julia’s frenetic social activities, such as ‘whirled away’ and being caught in a ‘vortex of folly and vice’, suggestive of a lack of sociability in high society. 3 As each participant rushes from one activity to the next … the card table has been in fashion all the pleasures of speech has been suppressed’. 5 This silencing of improving advice from friends and family may well have been the initial attraction to gambling for Cavendish in the early years of … turn of the next card. 4 . Connoisseur, Thursday 21st August 1755, p. 83. 5 . Quoted in Donna T. Andrew, Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven & London: Yale …
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