The title-page quotes Virgil
. The preface relates how while staying with a friend in the north the author discovered an ancient manuscript, much torn and defaced in a trunk in a garret.
Craik, Helen. Henry of Northumberland. William Lane.
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Education
Thomas Chatterton
As well as a basic school education, the young TC
(who had been thought slow as a small child) taught himself an astonishing range of abstruse subjects, mostly historical, by reading in circulating libraries and...
Friends, Associates
Charlotte Brooke
Apart from Joseph C. Walker
, the early friend who became the first person to publish her, CB
carried on an amicable correspondence with Thomas Percy
, whose project of conserving English ballads parallelled her...
Textual Production
Charlotte Brooke
She began her project as a money-earning one, but was later able to declare that the proceeds would go to charity. A further motive was patriotic and nationalistic: to counter the English (even, sometimes, the...
