Clubs and Club Life in London : :With anecdotes of its famous coffeehouses, hostelries, and taverns, from the seventeenth century to the present time / John Timbs.
This book contains a history of the famous coffee houses, hostelries and taverns of London from the seventeenth-century through the early twentieth-century. As club life was a vital component to the Victorian gentleman's social status, this book offers background to the social climate in which Oscar Wilde lived.