Tag: The Beggar’s Opera
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The Scriblerus and other clubs
JMS Pearce Hull, England, United Kingdom Fig 1. John Gay, John Arbuthnot, and Thomas Parnell. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when transport was by horse and carriage, the opportunities for scholars and inventors to exchange ideas was limited. Consequently, there arose a number of small private gentlemen’s clubs, where members gathered for congenial…