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Lecture 32: Mrs Caudle discourses of maids-of-all-work and maids in general. Mr…

In Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Read by Martin Clifton

Douglas William Jerrold

Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a pl…

Chapter 1 – The face in the target

In The Man Who Knew Too Much

Read by Martin Clifton

GK Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet a…

Richard Cory - Read by MC

In Richard Cory

Read by Martin Clifton

Edwin Arlington Robinson

This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here…

On Some Country Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Tom Clifton

W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

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