Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… associations. Objects > Food & Drink Practices > Eating & Drinking Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés alcool Crime Friendship Poverty Gin, the colourless spirit flavoured with juniper, can be classed as an object. ‘The Gin Craze’, … a mob found out about their entertainment and caused a rumpus outside the door (Warner 1). One of the most notorious crimes linked to gin led to a public outcry that helped precipitate the Gin Act of 1736. Judith Defour (alias Leford, or … confessed that ‘she had done something that deserved Newgate’. The judge and jury agreed and she was executed for her crime in 1734. Defour destroyed her key social relation, the mother-daughter bond, but in favour of her relationship with …
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