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© Henry Summerfield 2019 Published by

ePublishing Services, University of Victoria Libraries Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2

Canada press@uvic.ca

Book design by Yenny Lim, ePublishing Services, University of Victoria Libraries. Cover image: Alfred Walter Bays. 1889. Image from page 638 of “Stories for the house-hold”. Courtesy of Internet Archive on flikr, flic.kr/p/ovpvxp. No known copyright restrictions.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: From family to philosophy : letter-writers from the Pastons to Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Henry Summerfield.

Names: Summerfield, Henry, author.

Description: Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190190221 | Canadiana (ebook) 20190190264 | ISBN 9781550586473 (softcover) | ISBN 9781550586480 (PDF) | ISBN 9781550586497 (EPUB)

Subjects: LCSH: English letters—History and criticism. Classification: LCC PR911 .S86 2019 | DDC 826/.009—dc23

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“… the Three Regions immense

Of Childhood, Manhood & Old Age”

William Blake, Jerusalem 98:32-33

“And catch the Manners living as they rise”

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, I, 14

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Preface

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1 A Philosopher in Interesting Times and an Emperor’s

Benevolent Servant - Cicero and Pliny the Younger

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relude

2 Naked Ambition - The Pastons

3 Victims of Power - The Lisles

4 Blinkered Nobleness - Sir Thomas More

5 A Scholar Abroad - Roger Ascham

6 Jacobean Gossip - John Chamberlain

7 Spymaster, Poet, Provost of Eton - Sir Henry Wotton

8 A Troubled Life - John Donne

9 In Time of Civil War - James Howell

10 On the Cusp of Modernity - Sir Thomas Browne

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11 An Early Charmer - Dorothy Osborne

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12 The Self and the Modern World

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13 He Loves His Friends - Jonathan Swift

14 Putting a Spin on It - Alexander Pope

15 No One’s Obedient Servant - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

16 Wandering Down Byways - John Byrom

17 All-accomplished Gentleman - Lord Chesterfield

18 He Fears Madness - Samuel Johnson

19 Lockean Sentimentalist - Laurence Sterne

20 Not Quite a Recluse - Thomas Gray

21 He Gathers It All In - Horace Walpole

22 He Has Escaped from Slavery - Ignatius Sancho

23 Heaven Is Not for Him - William Cowper

24 A Marriage Fails in India - Eliza Fay

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25 Farmer, Poet, Lover, Exciseman - Robert Burns

26 He Loves Liberty—But Not Too Much of It - Sydney Smith

27 Often Down, but Never Out - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

28 She Obeys the Fourth Commandment - Mary Russell Mitford

29 What Is His Vocation? - Lord Byron

30 Seeker of Beauty, Victim of Passion - John Keats

31 A Sharp Tongue and a Hungry Heart - Jane Welsh Carlyle

32 Not an Elopement—Just a Private Marriage - Elizabeth Barrett

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33 What a Literature is Here!

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