OH MY - I SUPPOSE EVERYONE HAS LEFT!!! . . .
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17th and 18th century England & related topics |
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 Jonathan's Coffee House
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Between 1670 and 1685 coffee-houses multiplied in London, and attained some degree of political importance from the volume of talk which they caused. Each sect, party, or shade of fashion, had its meeting place of this sort, and London life grew more animated from the presence in its midst of public centers where witty conversation could be heard. When coffee-houses were still a novelty, they had their partisans and their opponents, who exchanged highly-spiced pamphlets in praise or condemnation of the bean and its patron. They were the haunts of men like Hogarth, Samuel Pepys, the writers Dryden, Pope and Defoe. ...
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I suppose it is past time to revitalise this group!
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I suppose it is past time to revitalise this group!
I'm So Very Glad To See You!!! . . .
