| HESKETH PEARSON, Born in Haworth, England, in 1887, HESKETH PEARSON turned to writing biographies after a career on the stage. Beginning in 1930 with a life of Erasmus Darwin, Pearson went on the write over twenty biographies; his subjects included Shakespeare. Hazlitt, Wilde, Shaw, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Sydney Smith, Widely regarded as the most readable and entertaining biographer of his era, he died in 1964. |
| FRONTISPIECE NEW INTRODUCTION BY RICHARK INGRAMS ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOREWORD BY G.M.TREVELYAN INTRODUCTION BY G.K.CHESTERTON PREFACE Ⅰ SEEING ENGLAND Ⅱ FIRST FRIENDS Ⅲ A STORMY NIGHT Ⅳ THE BLUE AND BUFF Ⅴ HIS SPIRITUAL HOME Ⅵ CATHOLICS Ⅶ RUSTICATION Ⅷ PEOPLE AND PLACES Ⅸ PROMOTON Ⅹ A BRANCH OF THE CIVIL SERVICE Ⅺ MR SYDNEY SMITH COMING UPSTATRS XII DROWSY SLUMBERS XIII GROWING OLD MERRILY POSTCRIPT INDEX |
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