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Kit-Cat Club
Kit-Cat Club, founded in the early part of the 18th cent. by leading Whigs, including (according to Pope) Steele, Addison, Congreve, Garth, and Vanbrugh. Tonson was for many years its secretary and moving spirit. The club met at the house of Christopher Cat (or Kat), a pastry cook, in Shire Lane and subsequently at Tonson's house at Barn Elms.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kit-Cat Club." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kit-Cat Club." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-KitCatClub.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Kit-Cat Club." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-KitCatClub.html |
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