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Article: "We had Carding": hospitable card play and polite domestic sociability among the middling sort in eighteenth-century England.(SECTION III REQIONAL TOPICS)(Report)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2009
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Over the heady years of England's eighteenth century, expanding trade and ever-greater urban wealth were the midwives of a new leisure culture. No longer did merchants need to spend every waking hour in the shop or the warehouse; physicians and lawyers found that contacts made in social situations opened new doors for them. Awakening to the delights of emerging fashions in entertaining and hospitality, the emerging middle classes were both eager and able to be part of the escalating social whirl. Could merchant and professional families hover around this candle flame without singeing their wings.? In an age of unlimited business liability, the middling sort had learned the ...
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