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‘his great pleasure seems to be to act the sort of King of Cheltenham, where all the vulgar misses make a great piece of work with him’. Harriet Arbuthnot, diarist, of Colonel Berkeley. She died OTD 1834.
Byron, Berkeley and Mrs Bunn https://t.co/500QoBzTHe

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2022-08-02

A Woman Scorned https://t.co/L8aupRDwCf < A bitter governess thinks she is privy to dark and incriminating secrets...

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2022-06-10

'For, heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, when no man dies for love but on the stage.'
Was Dryden’s wisdom to be trusted?
A Formidable Adversary https://t.co/Sypyt6wH2f <

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2022-05-25

Eloquence Under A Threadbare Cloak https://t.co/P2HdtJsvPu Billy Cole (alias Tudor) argues with his wife about the disputed dates of his sister's legal marriage and his part in a criminal stratagem...

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2022-05-14

“I’d like to go to Mass at St. George’s tomorrow. Shall you come?”
“And tempt God by having ashes daubed on my for’ead! I think not. I shall trust you to intercede for my soul.”

A Gilded Cage https://t.co/LckQMxU7dG <

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2022-03-02

The Ways of the World https://t.co/zMNyD18cbe “Susie! That’s powerful wicked! God could strike you dead for speaking so!” <

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2021-08-20