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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... Lord North might have been other than even - tempered and devotedly interested in his case . Yet this was the period during which , in the words of J. H. Plumb , ' the ministry of Lord North began to crumble under the weight of its own ...
... Lord North might have been other than even - tempered and devotedly interested in his case . Yet this was the period during which , in the words of J. H. Plumb , ' the ministry of Lord North began to crumble under the weight of its own ...
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... Lord Shelburne , apparently composed over the weekend during which the Gordon Riots were smouldering and delivered just when they re - ignited , is a sustained exercise in hitting the wrong note at the wrong time . It opens with a ...
... Lord Shelburne , apparently composed over the weekend during which the Gordon Riots were smouldering and delivered just when they re - ignited , is a sustained exercise in hitting the wrong note at the wrong time . It opens with a ...
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... Lord Steward of the Household , significant political preferment would come later with his appointment in Pitt's administration as Lord Privy Seal ( December 1783 ) and Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland ( February 1784 ) . -- Pitt's ...
... Lord Steward of the Household , significant political preferment would come later with his appointment in Pitt's administration as Lord Privy Seal ( December 1783 ) and Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland ( February 1784 ) . -- Pitt's ...
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The Sea and the River | 1 |
The Surgeons Apprentice | 17 |
A Stranger in the City | 49 |
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