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Robert Southey 1774-1843

English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Artist: Hall
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

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John Milton 1608-1674 poet

John Milton was an English poet and intellectual, who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse
Size 16 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Thomas Gray 1716-1771

English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular
Artist: Cook
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Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00

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Elizabeth Brownrigg 1720-1767

Elizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th-century English murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of witness testimony and medical evidence at her trial, Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn on 14 September 1767.
Date:1767
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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John Landcaster 1778-1838 educationalist

English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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