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A very good sort of man : a life of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope /

The first ever biography of Dr Charles Lewis Meryon (1783-1877), born in Rye (Sussex), physician to Lady Hester Stanhope and companion on her travels on various different occasions (to Malta, Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the Lebanon) during which he met Lord Byron, the Pasha of Egypt, and famed travell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guscin, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Meryon's early life
  • Travelling with Lady Hester : from Portsmouth to Rhodes
  • Travelling with Lady Hester : from Alexandria to Mar Elias
  • Back in London and back to Lady Hester
  • Complicated relationships
  • Back again with Lady Hester
  • Meryon's tormented fatherhood
  • Charles Meryon : historian, linguist and poet
  • The Meryon family
  • Appendix. Tis all my eye and Betty Martin or the folly of man's pursuits, a poem by Charles Lewis Meryon.