Sidetracks
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Richard Holmes. Sidetracks
Contents
Prologue
INTRODUCTION
THOMAS CHATTERTON
INTRODUCTION
MONSIEUR NADAR
GAUTIER IN LONDON
POOR PIERROT
INSIDE THE TOWER
INTRODUCTION
THE SINGULAR AFFAIR OF THE REVEREND MR BARHAM
THE REVEREND MATURIN AND MR MELMOTH
M. R. JAMES AND OTHERS
JOHN STUART MILL
LORD LISLE AND THE TUDOR NIXON TAPES
INTRODUCTION
THE FEMINIST AND THE PHILOSOPHER: A LOVE STORY
INTRODUCTION
SCROPE’S LAST THROW
TO THE TEMPEST GIVEN
INTRODUCTION
SCOTT AND ZELDA: ONE LAST TRIP
A SUMMER WITH THE NOVELIST
LETTERS FROM PARIS
VOLTAIRE’S GRIN
INTRODUCTION
BOSWELL’S BICENTENARY
BOSWELL AMONG THE TULIPS
DR JOHNSON’S FIRST CAT
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
ALSO BY RICHARD HOLMES
Praise
Copyright
About the Publisher
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EXPLORATIONS OF
A ROMANTIC BIOGRAPHER
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Historically, Chatterton’s Bristol of the 1760s was the second city in the kingdom, renowned – as say Birmingham is today – for its raw mercantile spirit, seething with new commercial enterprises; it was a city dominated by the power of local trading interests, and famed for its street riots, its civic pageants, its rowdy bought elections. There was a continuous cycle of demolition and new building, and the population was around 45,000 and increasing. The first recorded lock-out in England occurred in Bristol in 1762; and guild festivals, burnings in effigy of politicians and prize-fighting were all popular pastimes. Many of the streets were still unnavigably narrow, and goods traffic was often restricted to the same horse-drawn sleds which pulled Sir Charles Bawdin to his execution; now, however, they moved at high and unceremonious pace. Many shop doors and windows were hung with offensive advertisement sheets and boards; and one visitor complained that every single shop-boy seemed to be wearing silk stockings. Pope described it distastefully as ‘if Wapping and Southwark were ten times as big, or all their people ran into London’. The poet Richard Savage – who died there in misery and penury – apotheosed it as a city of
Upstarts and mushrooms, proud relentless hearts,
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