Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… character is a woman who ends up giving up the life-style associated with games in order to marry. In 1705, in his comedy The Tender Husband, Steele exclaimed: 'Oh, the damned Vice! That Women can imagine all Household Care, regard to … ‘Private Amusement’, 1787, Met Museum , 59.533.170 7 . Richard Steele, The Tender Husband, or the Accomplish’d Fools. A Comedy (London, 1705), The Plays of Richard Steele, ed. Shirley Strumkenny (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971). 8 . In 1754, …
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