6. Stories
15 March 1773. My mother she conquers as Oliver Goldsmith stoops
5 February 1783. The new Order of St Patrick
1 February 1799. The wreck of the Proserpine
19 January 1801. Death of a village smallpox pioneer
13 February 1804. A fine party at Swanbourne
4 March 1805. The Polish Dwarf—“a little horror”
6 January 1806. Too much kissing on Twelfth Night
21 January 1806. “How absorbing politics are of every other feeling”
5 March 1806. Broad Bottoms Suckling
10 March 1806. British “invaders seeking to establish a dominion and to acquire an empire” in India
1 January 1810: No end to the hipping and hurrahing at Stowe
16 February 1816. A sickly visit to Paris and a return to a sickly England
20 March 1821. Death of a confidential postman
20 February 1824. Mary Anning, Conybeare, and the Plesiosaurus
30 January 1826. Menai Bridge opens: “in beauty it surpasses all powers of description”
20 January 1827. If you are lower class, “a word and a blow go together”. But if you are a nobleman…
5 January 1828. A storm right in our teeth
12 March 1829. The Catholic Question that divided a nation and divided a family
3 January 1836. The Isle of Thanet Corn Drill
26 February 1836. Accidental Death of a Catholic at Stowe
The Myth of the Grenville Diptych
Richard Temple’s eyes: the chubby cherub at Stowe identified