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Stewarton : Revolutionary Plutarch

" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'179 Murdering en masse at Toulon by Brutus Buonaparte Citizen Sans-culotte. "'Barras & his entourage [two further entries] "The first and second entries are taken verbatim from the text, the first from a footnote -- so Beckford was reading attentively."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Beckford      Print: Book

Stewarton : Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The

'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

Stewarton : Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biographical, Historical and Revolutionary Sketches, Characters and Anecdotes, The

'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

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