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Nanny Holland and the Knockle-Heading

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

A few days ago, we got an email from a descendant of Roger Langdon (1825–94), whose Life, ‘told by himself, with additions by his daughter’, we have just reissued. The relative wanted to know whether perhaps another branch of the … Continue reading →

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A Shropshire Lad

Posted on June 15, 2011 by

People like me, who incurably see the Author in the Work (Thomas Hardy is the Journeying Boy; at a slightly different level, Dorothy L. Sayers is (or would like to be) Harriet Vane) have a problem with A. E. Housman … Continue reading →

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