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...literary underworld abounds with stories about great writers who were also great pornographers. Mark Twain amused himself and friends with outhouse humor; so did Benjamin Franklin. Passages of Swift are brutally obscene. Byron and Swinburne both dipped their pens in blue ink, while even Thackeray could line out a lickerish limerick. Perhaps the most famous respectable smutmaster is Robert Burns, whose collection of bawdy Scottish verse has been circulating in more or less clandestine versions for more than 150 years. The collection as now published is as close to the original as scholarship is likely to achieve, bar ring...
...various schools." A friend explains, "She's just learned without being academic-a thing we have in England." Serious critics dismiss her writing as nothing but "a jolly good read," except for The Infamous Army, which is regarded as the best novel about the Battle of Waterloo since Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In an age of prurience and pornography, Georgette Heyer's main appeal is in the faultless re-creation of a world of manners and decorum...
Pride & Principle. For the Rothschilds, who still retained some of their Yiddish accents and ghetto ways, money also bought culture, fame and a degree of acceptance. They were celebrated in the writings of Byron and Thackeray; artists such as Ingres painted their women; Balzac and Browning sought out their sumptuous but always kosher tables; Rossini composed music for their parties; Bismarck and British royalty attended them. From Buckinghamshire to Bohemia, the Rothschilds put up marble palaces, acquired vineyards and stables. Breathed Lady Eastlake: "The Medicis were never lodged so in the height of their glory...
...Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around a little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
...Titanic crash brought the only other major change to Harvard that year, with the bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...