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52 WEEKS OF HISTORICAL HOW-TO’S, WEEK 37: How to improve your mind …

17 July 2014
How-To's, Rare Book Collection

There is a scene early in Mansfield Park (1814) where Maria and Julia Bertram, then aged thirteen and twelve, deplore the ignorance of their slightly… Read More »52 WEEKS OF HISTORICAL HOW-TO’S, WEEK 37: How to improve your mind …

Highlights from the Reading Room: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth

14 March 2014
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collections highlights, Rare Book Collection

As part of my research for Maria Edgeworth: A Political Biography (to be published by Pickering and Chatto in 2017), I have spent a few… Read More »Highlights from the Reading Room: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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