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The House of Clifford
"Cliffords throughout the world will welcome the appearance of this authoritative volume, whose compilation, as the author makes clear in his introduction, has involved many distinguished contributors as well as himself. The book begins by tracing the medieval barons of Clifford from before the Conquest, and the generations who became masters first of the barony of Clifford and then of extensive estates in Westmorland and elsewhere. The Clifford lords played a central role in national and local history, a tradition which was continued into the Tudor and Stuart periods. The story of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery, was a particularly fascinating episode. The history of the author's own line, the Cliffords of Chudleigh, is also traced in detail: the account of the secret negotations between Charles II and King Louis XIV will perhaps be of particular interest"--Front flyleaf. Some descendants and relatives immigrated to Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and else- where. Includes some ancestry in pre-Conquest Normandy and elsewhere in Europe.
The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins was not only one of the most gifted Victorian poets, he was a compelling diarist who used his journals for everything from daily to-do lists to the most intimate spiritual self-assessments. This volume represents Hopkins as a man of extremes, both emotionally and psychologically. There are mundane memoranda about neckties to purchase or letters to write, but also exacting revisions of poems. There are entries of quiet rapture, his attentioncaught by the beauty of the natural world. Paintings, sculptures, and works of literature are stringently assessed, his aesthetic principles freely exercised. There are also nightmares relived;undergraduate 'sins' unsparingly recorded; 'signs' of heavenly mercy carefully noted. This is the first unexpurgated edition of all extant diaries. The entries extend from September 1863, during his second term at Oxford, until February 1875, while studying theology as a Jesuit in his beloved Wales, and from February 1884 until July 1885, while Hopkins was living at a 'third remove' in Dublin.
