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's father, Charles Oman
, said that his early life had been most unhappy.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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He had been a poverty-stricken student, then a Fellow of All Souls.
Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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He became librarian of the...
Intertextuality and Influence
Carola Oman
Her choice of the leader of the disastrous retreat to Corunna was probably influenced by her father
, whose A History of the Peninsular War was his best-known book. She quotes as epigraph from Lady Hester Stanhope
