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In February 1805 The Earl of Abergavenny, one of the largest of the East India Company's ships, set sail in convoy from Portsmouth for a voyage round the world to India and China. Her captain, John Wordsworth, was the younger brother of the poet William Wordsworth. On board were more than 400 passengers, troops and crew and a rich cargo of luxury goods and silver dollars. Only three days later, separated from the convoy by stormy weather, the ship struck the notorious Shambles Shoal in Weymouth Bay and sank, drowning 260 souls including her captain.
From the harrowing accounts of the survivors and the detailed official and press reports of the disaster, The Wreck of the Abergavenny brilliantly recreates this tragic event and its contemporary impact. Alethea Hayter centres the narrative on a single dramatic historical event and puts it in the context of the literary world of the day. John Wordsworth's death devastated his brother William, his sister Dorothy and his sister-in-law Mary and his friends Coleridge, Charles and Mary Lamb, William Wilberforce and many others. Their grieving memories, and the effect of the tragedy on Wordsworth's art and view of life, conclude this powerful story, which shows how a catastrophe is transformed from first reports and contemporary reactions into historical record and poetic myth.
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Alethea Hayter is the very highly regarded author of many works of literary criticism. Most particularly she is the author of A Sultry Month, a wonderful book first published in 1965, following the intersecting lives of a number of writers - Browning, the Carlyles - in London during the unusually hot August of 1846. She is 92 years old and lives in Vauxhall.
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"Perfect...a small and original masterpiece."--Claire Tomalin, Independent
"Hayter gives us intellectual as well as emotional excitement...beautifully crafted and a pleasure to read."--London Sunday Times
"Hayter's marvelous book is...a jewel of popular history writing."--Literary Review
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- PublisherMacmillan Pub Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0333989171
- ISBN 13 9780333989173
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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