From the December 2018 Issue In Search of Dona Quixote Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind By Susan Carlile LR
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From the September 2013 Issue London with the Many Sins The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age By Vic Gatrell The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London By Hannah Greig LR
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