Social Life in England 1750-1850 Audiobook Libro.fm

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In 1916 the Cambridge historian FJ FoakesJackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston In these wideranging and engaging talks the author describes British life between 17501850 There are John Wesleys horseback peregrinations over thousands of miles of English countryside Next FoakesJackson introduces the mordant rural poet George Crabbe who began life as a surgeon apothecary and ended up as a parish rector who made house calls He gives us a female convict assorted Cambridge University dons Regency fops and rakes and Victorian slices of life from Dickens and Thackeray In the last lecture we barrel over hedges and fences and through muddy lanes in headlong chase of the fox