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La Narrativa de Henry Fielding y la Sociedad Inglesa del Siglo XVIII

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<strong>La</strong> <strong>Narrativa</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Henry</strong> <strong>Fielding</strong> y <strong>la</strong> <strong>Sociedad</strong> <strong>Inglesa</strong> <strong>de</strong>l <strong>Siglo</strong> <strong>XVIII</strong><br />

4. ENTERTAINMENT AND OTHER SERVICES<br />

5d. Charge for a bal<strong>la</strong>d-singer to sing one song<br />

1d. Charge to view a peepshow or “raree-show”, a miniature disp<strong>la</strong>y<br />

insi<strong>de</strong> a box.<br />

Minimum postage for a letter sent and <strong>de</strong>livered in London.<br />

1.5d. Per ton charge to haul twenty-five tons of coal on a barge on the<br />

Trent and Mersey Canal.<br />

3d. Minimum postage for a letter sent and <strong>de</strong>livered outsi<strong>de</strong><br />

London.<br />

Catalogue of the museum of curiosities at Don Saltero’s<br />

coffeehouse<br />

6d. Tip customarily paid to a clerk and sexton to act as marriage<br />

witness<br />

Admission to a bear-baiting spectacle<br />

Spectator admission to the Marylebone Cricket Club<br />

1s. Admission to most prominent shows<br />

Pre-written sermon for busy (or <strong>la</strong>zy) clergymen.<br />

Admission to Mrs. Salmon’s, the best waxworks in London ,<br />

1763.<br />

Fee for a sedan chair for an hour.<br />

2s. Cost of a scalped ticket to the British museum<br />

3s. A better seat at the Eidophusikon, a mechanical picture with<br />

special light and sound effects (the less expensive seats were 2s.)<br />

Three month’s worth of piped water service to a London home,<br />

7s.6d. Approximate minimum fees for a c<strong>la</strong>n<strong>de</strong>stine marriage<br />

£1 1s. Fee for a sedan chair for a week<br />

£1 1s.4d. Marriage license.<br />

£2 Approximate yearly cost of a private tutor<br />

£5.000 Three-year Grand Tour to France, Italy, Germany and the<br />

Nether<strong>la</strong>nds 1 .<br />

Fuente: KIRSTIN OLSEN, Daily Life in 18 th Century Eng<strong>la</strong>nd, Daily Life through History, The<br />

Greenwood Press, Westport, 1999, pp. 203-4.<br />

1 ALTICK, Shows of London , pp. 18, 27, 51, 56, 82, 88, 114, 124. COLLEY, Britons, p. 44. GERZINA,<br />

B<strong>la</strong>ck London, p. 117.LANGFORD, A Polite and Commercial Pople, pp. 86-7, 335, 408, 417, 572, 665.<br />

PORTER, English Society, pp. 163, 283, 294. PORTER, London, pp. 170, 174, 176, STONE, Road to<br />

Dvorce, pp. 102,104, WATERSON, Servant’s Hall, p. 139.

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