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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> DOES NEGLECTED masterpiece by Jane DAusten enshrine her first love affair? Who was Vita Sackville-West’s real grandfather? What clues are there to the identity of ‘Walter’ doyen of Victorian pornographers? When and why did P. G.Wodehouse mutate from hack to genius? Was Oscar Wilde really down and out in Paris? Was Brideshead really Madresfield? These and other excursions into literary or social history have developed out of Mark Girouard’s spare-time enthusiasms as diversions from his main occupation as an architectural historian. In twelve essays he calls attention to points that have not been noticed before; corrects fallacies that have got into general circulation; suggests identifies re-dates refutes or pours a little cold water on unjustified romanticisms. Three further essays sample another enthusiasm his own family background and introduce char- acters such as the dwarf who had to stand on a bench to address the South African Parliament the colonial governor who fell in love with his niece and the dowager duchess with whom he spent much of his childhood on the edge of the park at Chatsworth.