Was a remarkable woman of letters. Her father was a less than admirable character from a Thackeray or Trollope novel. Miss Mitford and her village became so popular that her house and other landmarks were pointed out by passi.

Samuel Johnson, the writer and wit, lived and worked here in the middle of the eighteenth century, compiling his great. Dictionary of the English Language. Tabea Debus - Album launch. Recorder player Tabea gives a performance of Telemann to celebrate the release of her new album. In the Garret with Dr Johnson.

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Exploring 1700 years of history at Saint Pancras Old Church. Welcome to the Saint Pancras Old Church History Project Website. Blake, who lived close by in London for most of his life, knew of this myth and created his most famous poem around it, also creating what has been called the second English National Anthem.

In the eighteenth century, Ann Radcliffe whose. It was while living in Bath during the mid-1970s that Angela Carter worked on the darkly erotic fairytales collected in. That Mary Shelley attended in Bat.