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Society was a minefield for an eighteenth-century lady. The temptations of gambling, fashion and drink easily led to a spiral of financial, social and physical ruin ending in prostitution and imprisonment. Such was the moral of an earthenware plate produced by John Aynsley in Staffordshire in the 1790s.
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Robert Dighton, Keep Within Compass, Industry Produceth Wealth and Keep Within Compass, Prudence Produceth Esteem (1765).
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Maxine Berg, Luxury and pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 117–53.
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Barrett, K. (2016). Keep Within Compass. In: Craciun, A., Schaffer, S. (eds) The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44379-3_19
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