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Assembly Rooms: Almack's, Pantheon, London, the Clifton Club, Bath Assembly Rooms, Victoria Rooms, Cheltenham Town Hall, York Assembly Rooms

Assembly Rooms: Almack's, Pantheon, London, the Clifton Club, Bath Assembly Rooms, Victoria Rooms, Cheltenham Town Hall, York Assembly Rooms


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Chapters: Almack's, Pantheon, London, the Clifton Club, Bath Assembly Rooms, Victoria Rooms, Cheltenham Town Hall, York Assembly Rooms. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Almack's Assembly Rooms was a social club in London from 1765 to 1871 and one of the first to admit both men and women. It was one of a limited number of upper class mixed-sex public social venues in the British capital in an era when the most important venues for the hectic social season were the grand houses of the aristocracy. Almack's opened in King Street, St. James, in London, on 20 February 1765. Traditionally, it is said to have been established by William Macall who, to avoid the onus of a Scottish name, then considered foreign and uncouth, reversed the syllables. His Almack's Coffee House, opened at the same time, was bought in 1774 and became the gentlemen's club, Brooks's. However, Chancellor points out that Almack is as legitimate and common a name as Macall, and may easily have been the man's actual family name. The Assembly Rooms first opened in purposeful rivalry to Mrs. Cornelys' establishment, whose masqued balls were becoming notorious. At first it was described as a "female Brook's"a gambling club to which women were admitted, as well as men. Male members proposed and elected the female members, and women proposed and elected the male members. At this time, like Almack's other establishments, it was meant to make money as what would now be called a casino. It was, like a male club, open any night, and gambling was all that went on, besides a little supper served by Mr. and Mrs. Almack, the latter of whom poured tea in a fashionable sack gown. As Horace Walpole wrote in 1770, "There is a new Institution that begins to make, and if it proceeds will make, consid...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=175522


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157394914
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157394914
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Almack's, Pantheon, London, the Clifton Club, Bath Assembly Rooms, Victoria Rooms, Cheltenham Town Hall, York Assembly Rooms
  • Width: 229 mm


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