Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]
… person to sell coffee publicly in England. By 1656, James Farr, had established the Rainbow Coffeehouse in competition with Rosee and soon thereafter many other coffeehouses began to proliferate. By 1663, there were eighty-two coffeehouses … of politeness that they saw in those places. They promoted an ideal whereby coffeehouse conversation should be informed, witty, and wise. 4 While this model of polite coffeehouse sociability remained an ideal, it became an ever more powerful … [BM] Department of Prints and Drawings, Catalogue of English Cartoons and Satirical Prints, 1320–1832 [BM Sat.] 1539; with C. Lamb after G. M. Woodward, ‘A Sudden Thought’ (London: S. W. Fores, 1 Jan. 1804), etching and stipple, (25 × 35.5 …
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