The Young Melbourne and Lord M - Softcover

David Cecil

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9781842124970: The Young Melbourne and Lord M

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ISBN 10: 1842124978 ISBN 13: 9781842124970

Publisher: Phoenix Press, 2001

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Book by David Cecil

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Lord David Cecil (1902-1986) was a British biographer, academic and historian. He read Modern History at Oxford University where he later became a Fellow. He published his first book, a biography of the poet William Cowper, The Stricken Deer, -in 1929; it went on to win the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize, and launched a brilliant literary career. Cecil went on to publish biographies of many other literary figures, including Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Shakespeare. He died in 1986.

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The most convincing analysis that can ever have been applied to an historical personage . . . -- L. P. Hartley * Broadsheet * Brilliant, beautiful, utterly absorbing. * New York Times Book Review * To convey to subsequent generations the charm of a famous figure of the past is one of the most intractable of all literary operations; Lord David has managed this task with skill. The central portrait is a superb work of art. -- Harold Nicholson

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