Societies for the Reformation of Manners

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Late 1670s: All-male Religious Societies sprang up, the...

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Late 1670s

All-male Religious Societies sprang up, the forerunners of the Societies for the Reformation of Manners .
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1690 or 1691: One of the earliest Societies for the Reformation...

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1690 or 1691

One of the earliest Societies for the Reformation of Manners was founded in Tower Hamlets on the outskirts of London, by a group of Anglican gentlemen.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
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1722: The Societies for the Reformation of Manners...

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1722

The Societies for the Reformation of Manners issued over seven thousand prosecutions for prostitution and bawdy-house keeping.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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1724: Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published...

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1724

Under a pseudonym, Bernard Mandeville published A Modest Defence of Public Stews: or, An Essay upon Whoring, as it is now Practis'd in these Kingdoms.
Henderson, Tony. Disorderly Women. Longman, 1999.
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