This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life.

And the invitation is irresistible.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . .

Also includes some descendants of Otto Beery.

Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine ...

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... burglary ; and John Kitfal , alias Wilmot , aliae Smith , for topping a gentleman near Highgate , and robbing him of ... 1786 was affigned to the Rev. Mr. Pearfon , A. M. Fellow of Sydney college , for his Eflay on the Good- nefs ...

The taint of crime is all the more potent in those whose parentage is evil. The germ is far more likely to flourish into baleful vitality if planted by congenital depravity. This is constantly seen with the offspring of criminals.