Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges

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We know exceedingly little of the genesis and progress of Esmond. “It did not seem to be a part of our lives as Pendennis was,†says Lady Ritchie, though she wrote part of it to dictation. She “only heard Esmond spoken of very rarelyâ€. Perhaps its state was not the less gracious. The Milton girls found Paradise Lost a very considerable part of their lives—and were not the happier.