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Jenny Uglow
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The United Kingdom
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
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2002
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28 editions
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
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2009
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13 editions
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Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories
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1993
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7 editions
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In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815
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2014
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10 editions
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick
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2007
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11 editions
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Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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2017
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7 editions
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The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
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2012
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19 editions
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George Eliot
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published
1987
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15 editions
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A Little History of British Gardening
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2004
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19 editions
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Hogarth: A Life and a World
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1997
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15 editions
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“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.”
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“Like many boys unhappy at school Lear built an inner life and learned that one way to be accepted was to make people laugh, to become an amiable buffoon. While he fretted about being ‘half-educated’ he was glad, he said later, to have escaped the straitjacket of conventional teaching, as so many of those who had been laboriously and expensively educated lost their learning, ‘& remain like Swift’s Stullbruggs – cut & dried for life, making no use of their earlier-gained treasures: – whereas I seem to be on the threshold of knowledge’.”
― Mr Lear
― Mr Lear
“When William Harness, a regular soldier, was recruiting in Sheffield, he set off with three or four other officers, as he told his wife Bessy: Then follows a Cart with a Barrel of ale with fidlers and a Man with a Surloin of Roast Beef upon a pitch fork, then my Colours of yellow silk with a blue shield with a reath of oak leaves and trophies, and in Silver letters on one side ‘Capt. Harness’s Rangers’, on the other ‘Capt. Harness’s Saucy Sheffielders’.8 The sergeant, corps, drums and fifes followed. ‘You can conceive the stir in a prosperous place like this all this noise must make. I am become very popular.’ Harness was one of many officers recruiting their own companies. He had been in the army for thirteen years, saving money to marry his ‘adored Bessy’, Elizabeth Biggs, in 1791. During her long wait Bessy took up botany, tried to run a book club in her home town of Aylesbury, and loyally made him shirts.”
― In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815
― In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815
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