George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832The English poet George Crabbe, best known as the author of Peter Grimes and The Village, was also a surgeon, clergyman, botanist, and novelist. An ambitious, resourceful, self-made professional man, he devoted his middle years to his children and his increasingly ill wife, after whose death he embarked, at 60, on an astonishing second life. This new biography charts Crabbe’s progress from an impoverished provincial childhood to the excitement and sophistication of late 18th-century London; through his career as a ducal chaplain and country parson whose addictions included theater-going and opium; to his final years when, as a rector, he traveled widely, met major literary figures, and fell in love with some remarkable young women. |
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The Crabbe family would within a few years outgrow the house at Slaughden and move into Aldeburgh , for young George was soon joined by siblings : his sister Mary was born on 17 October 1756 , his brother Robert on 9 July 1758.
The Crabbe family would within a few years outgrow the house at Slaughden and move into Aldeburgh , for young George was soon joined by siblings : his sister Mary was born on 17 October 1756 , his brother Robert on 9 July 1758.
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Her brother was Charles Malet , of Wilbury Park , near Salisbury : he enjoyed a distinguished career with the East India Company as resident minister at Poona and acting governor of Bombay , became a Fellow of the Royal Society and was ...
Her brother was Charles Malet , of Wilbury Park , near Salisbury : he enjoyed a distinguished career with the East India Company as resident minister at Poona and acting governor of Bombay , became a Fellow of the Royal Society and was ...
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233-44 ) Conversely , as he leads up to an as yet unexplained strategy for retaining his younger brother's company , George indicates ways in which he might enrich Richard's life : We part no more , dear Richard ! thou wilt WRITING IN ...
233-44 ) Conversely , as he leads up to an as yet unexplained strategy for retaining his younger brother's company , George indicates ways in which he might enrich Richard's life : We part no more , dear Richard ! thou wilt WRITING IN ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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