Pic Nic Society

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'Dilettanti Theatricals or a Peep in the Green Room - vide Pic Nic Orgies' by caricaturist James Gillray
Caricature titled 'The Pic-Nic Orchestra'
The Duchess of Buckinghamshire in a caricature titled 'Enter Cowslip'

The Pic Nic Society was an elite amateur theatre society founded at the turn of the nineteenth century. The society and its members were heavily satirised by the press and in caricatures.

Members

The membership of the Pic Nic Society consisted of a number of high profile aristocrats. These included Albina, Countess of Buckinghamshire and Sir Lumley Skeffington.

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