English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities was written by John Timbs and published first in two volumes by Richard Bentley in New Burlington Street, London, in 1866. It is a source of biographical incident on unusual people of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, from celebrities to recluses, religious notables to country astrologers, pop authors to tragedians.
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