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MARY SHELLEY (275 pp.)-Eileen Bigland -Appleton -Century -Crofts...
...Eccentrics. With egotism their first article of faith, most of the Romantics were diary keepers; with the telephone yet to be invented, they were great letter writers. The letters and the diaries are Biographer Bigland's chief sources. Thus the reader can get detailed information on who was calling on the Shelleys in Pisa and who was snubbing them in Rome. Of the atmosphere in Europe that perhaps called the poets into being and that was certainly given a whole new range of colors by them, there is little in this genteel biography. In her account, Author Bigland...
...boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...
...associate in these lotteries was the dour printer Reuben Bigland, known on British racetracks as "Telephone Jack." Telephone Jack in 1921 decided that he had not been sufficiently taken care of. He printed and circulated a pamphlet entitled "The Downfall of Horatio Bottomley." This was followed by a second number, "What Horatio Bottomley Has Done for His Country." which contained 24 blank pages. Horatio Bottomley sued for libel, lost, and inadvertently gave away the whole story of the War and Victory loan lotteries. He was tried in 1922 on the specific charge of misappropriating ?5,000. Prosecution brought out that...
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