George Crabbe: An English Life, 1754-1832Pimlico, 2004 - 373 Seiten The 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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... wife and son , he could fully relish the ironic satisfaction of this moment : having been seen listening to Wesley ... wife at a nearby inn , as his son suggests , though it seems just as likely that both wife and son had remained at 124 ...
... wife and son , he could fully relish the ironic satisfaction of this moment : having been seen listening to Wesley ... wife at a nearby inn , as his son suggests , though it seems just as likely that both wife and son had remained at 124 ...
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... Wife of the Rev. George Crabbe , late Rector of this Parish . ' A few days after her death , Crabbe himself became so ill that he requested that his wife's grave should not be closed while his own life was in danger : the ' disease ...
... Wife of the Rev. George Crabbe , late Rector of this Parish . ' A few days after her death , Crabbe himself became so ill that he requested that his wife's grave should not be closed while his own life was in danger : the ' disease ...
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... wife , Emma , née Charter – the youngest daughter of Thomas Charter ( 1741-1810 ) and his wife Elizabeth ( 1749-1804 ) , of Lynchfield House , Lydeard , near Taunton - had died in 1809. Mrs Charter's father , the Reverend Alexander ...
... wife , Emma , née Charter – the youngest daughter of Thomas Charter ( 1741-1810 ) and his wife Elizabeth ( 1749-1804 ) , of Lynchfield House , Lydeard , near Taunton - had died in 1809. Mrs Charter's father , the Reverend Alexander ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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