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Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Rowlandson and Joshua Reynolds. A young Polish count fights under Kościuszko, sees Poland partitioned out of existence, and arrives in London a refugee with nothing — where the English are charmed by him and quite unwilling to help. Porter published this in 1803, eight years after the third partition; it was read across Europe, Kościuszko himself thanked her, and it invented the exiled hero the nineteenth century would use for a hundred years. Fifty-one plates of painting, among them Constable and Richard Wilson, follow the exile from Polish rivers to English country houses and the London road.
Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by Joseph Wright of Derby, Thomas Rowlandson and Joshua Reynolds. A young Polish count fights under Kościuszko, sees Poland partitioned out of existence, and arrives in London a refugee with nothing — where the English are charmed by him and quite...
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Jane Porter wrote The Scottish Chiefs, the William Wallace romance that Walter Scott's admirers quietly credit as a forerunner of his historical novels — she published it four years before Waverley. Napoleon is said to have banned it in France. Her earlier Thaddeus of Warsaw was translated across Europe, and she claimed, with justice, to have invented the form Scott perfected.
Jane Porter wrote The Scottish Chiefs, the William Wallace romance that Walter Scott's admirers quietly credit as a forerunner of his historical novels — she published it four years before Waverley. Napoleon is said to have banned it in France. Her earlier Thaddeus of Warsaw was translated across...
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