James's Street.23The popularityof the Garrick and the idea ofamove highlight thefactthat theclubwas assuming its placeinthe London clubland community. Clublandwasboth an imagined community andavery real place.24 Members ofthe Garrick ...
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Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender,
Language: en
Pages: 104
Pages: 104
Books about Club-land, London and Provincial
Language: en
Pages: 328
Pages: 328
In nineteenth-century London, a clubbable man was a fortunate man, indeed. The Reform, the Athenaeum, the Travellers, the Carlton, the United Service are just a few of the gentlemen’s clubs that formed the exclusive preserve known as “clubland” in Victorian London—the City of Clubs that arose during the Golden Age
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
THE core of what we call St James’s dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James’s clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain’s emerging role as
Language: en
Pages: 298
Pages: 298
This title considers white colonials as part of the colonial presence at the heart of the empire. Between 1870 and 1940 tens of thousands of Australian women were drawn to London, their imperial metropolis and the centre of the publishing, art, theatrical, and educational worlds.