Table of Contents

Coffeehouses to Clubhouses: Understanding the Gentlemen's Clubs of London The Blackball: Looking for the 'Right Sort' of Member  Gentlemen Behaving Badly  Club Talk, Men's Gossip, and the Creation of a Community The Club as Home: Imagining Male Domesticity  Naughty Bachelors, Bad Husbands, and Mixed-Sex Destiny  The Importance of Space and Place: Clubland and the Divided Capital

About the Author

AMY MILNE-SMITH is an Assistant Professor of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.