Jane Austen expected little of Egerton Brydges. In a 25 November 1798 letter to her sister Cassandra, the twenty-three-year-old Austen reported that she and her father had been reading the first volum...
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In the British Library are ten large manuscript notebooks containing more than two thousand sonnets along with miscellaneous notes written by Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges during three years of his final...
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Samuel Egerton Brydges