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Mrs Austen’s letter from Stoneleigh Abbey
“MY DEAR MARY, – The very day after I wrote you my last letter, Mr. Hill wrote his intention of being at Adlestrop with Mrs. Hill on Monday, the 4th, and his wish that Mr. Leigh and family should return with him to Stoneleigh the following day, as there was much business for the executors…
John Weever and Shakespeare
Many years ago I bought a book published in 1998 by E. A. J. Honigmann, Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University. His theory was that Shakespeare lived and worked in Lancashire before moving to London. The book title was Shakespeare – the ‘lost years’. I had been very surprised on flicking through it in…
What is ideology?
Ideology is an attempt to make the external universe conform to ideas about how it ought to be. It has a superficial similarity to science in that it involves the construction of cognitive models to achieve its ends. Science however is an attempt to understand the universe as it is in the knowledge that the…
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