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Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]

… Résumé Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper active in early eighteenth-century London, best known for his London Spy … enjoy a tipple himself with fellow satirists in the taverns of the town, reading and writing in company. Taken together, Ward’s life and works are a reminder that the ideal of polite and decorous sociability was not one to which everyone subscribed. People > Commerce People > Art and Literature Mots-clés ward Satire humour Tavern drunkenness impoliteness Club London Edward ‘Ned’ Ward was a satirist and tavern keeper, most …

Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]

… was introduced). 4  Here individuals and groups could wander and enjoy the antics of the inmates, goaded often by the warders in the hope of gratuities, and could tease or reward the most amusing. This was a species of sociability that confirmed the sanity of the sane, providing thereby a spurious group cohesion along with a pleasant day out. Indeed, as Ned Ward described in his satirical periodical The London Spy in 1699, the   sociable nature of a visit to Bethlem could …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… after a tragic event. This was the case during the Stilton match (6 May 1789) opposing Mendoza and Humphreys. William Ward, a pugilist, had travelled to Stilton with his fraternity to watch the boxing match but was challenged to fight by a drunken blacksmith. The death of the blacksmith under the fists of Ward provoked an outcry of indignation, the Scots Magazine advocating for instance ‘a total stop to such savage … Art of Boxing, a guide for scholars detailing how the sport was practiced by famous pugilists (Mendoza, Humphreys, Ward …). In the preface, he argued that the three requisites for a good boxer were strength, courage and art, and the …

Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

… while the tavern’s popular reputation for vice and profligacy was encouraged in works by writers such as Ned Ward 3  and by artists such as William Hogarth. Hogarth’s The Rake’s Progress sets its third scene, known as the orgy … chaotic depraved behaviour and the sex trade. 2 . See for example The Spectator No. 49, Thursday April 26, 1711. 3 . Edward Ward, The London-Spy Compleat. In Eighteen Parts 3rd ed. (London, 1700), see for example the first part, November 1698, …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… And indeed, writers and critics in the eighteenth century frequently compared writers to prostitutes, such as Ned Ward in 1698, who described the condition of an author as ‘very much like that of a Strumpet […] and if the reason be … (B.E., A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew (London: W. Hawes, 1699)). 4 . Quoted in Howard W. Troyer, Ned Ward of Grub Street: A Study of Sub-Literary London in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 1968), p. 3. Writing as …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… it had developed an agenda to direct English arts and letters, with a particular emphasis on journalism and opera. 1 . Edward (Ned) Ward, The Secret History of the Clubs (London: 1709) The practices of the Kit-Cat Club were relatively formalised. It met … on the Strand and the Upper Flask tavern in Hampstead for summer meetings. By 1704 Anne’s attitude was softening towards the Junto, yet the Club continued to grow increasingly political. The following year, one Tory wrote that ‘from …