Richard Brinsley Sheridan [ Art and Literature / Politics / Association ]
… for Scandal (1777), The Critic (1779) or Pizarro (1799). He moved from the stage to the political arena and was a Whig MP for thirty-two years in the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807), and … (1807–1812). He was a member of Samuel Johnson’s exclusive Literary Club as well as Brooks's Club, the fashionable 'Whig fraternity'. People > Art and Literature People > Politics People > Association Mots-clés Anglo-Irishness Clubs Duelling Politics Whigs Richard Brinsley Sheridan was part of the late eighteenth-century London male-dominated world of English clubs. …
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