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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He was to become successively a burgess , a junior bailiff , Chamberlain and - the town's highest honour - Bailiff ; in 1732 , he was appointed Collector of Customs . By this time , he had remarried : his second wife was a local girl ...
He was to become successively a burgess , a junior bailiff , Chamberlain and - the town's highest honour - Bailiff ; in 1732 , he was appointed Collector of Customs . By this time , he had remarried : his second wife was a local girl ...
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It was a textile - making market town of some eight thousand inhabitants , skirted by a river and with the remains of a medieval castle : in many respects , a larger version of Bungay . In the years immediately preceding Crabbe's ...
It was a textile - making market town of some eight thousand inhabitants , skirted by a river and with the remains of a medieval castle : in many respects , a larger version of Bungay . In the years immediately preceding Crabbe's ...
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He was shaken , nevertheless , and he was also dismayed to discover that ' the duties of a residing rector in a populous town ' actually involved a good deal of work . Having told the Duke of Rutland , in November 1813 , that ' the ...
He was shaken , nevertheless , and he was also dismayed to discover that ' the duties of a residing rector in a populous town ' actually involved a good deal of work . Having told the Duke of Rutland , in November 1813 , that ' the ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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