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capacious (16).
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Spacious; capable of containing a large quantity.
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chemical 'Ladies' (16).
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Portable toilet.
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marquee (16).
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A large tent with open sides used for outdoor entertainment.
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sod (17).
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A British explicative.
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commode (17).
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Can refer either to a toilet or a decorated low cabinet or chest of drawers.
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game books (18).
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Books in which the details of hunts are recorded.
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Sussex (19).
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A former British county located in southeastern England, on the English Channel.
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D. H. Lawrence (19).
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British writer (1885-1930). His fiction dealt with the struggle for human fulfillment in the dehumanizing industrialized society of the early twentieth century. His novels include Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
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Just William books (19).
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A British children's book series.
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Brighton and Hove Argus (19).
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A British regional newspaper (probably fictional).
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ha-ha (20).
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A wall used in landscaping. From one side of the wall (the "pasture" side), it appears to be a wall. On the other side, the dirt is graded up to the top of the wall allowing an unobstructed view of lawn.
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Lady Caroline Lamb (20).
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(1785-1828) Byron's mistress who wrote Glenarron, Graham Hamilton and Ada Reis. She was infatuated with Lord Byron and was notorious for her nine-months devotion to him in 1812. After seeing Byron's funeral procession she lost her mind.
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don (21).
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A head, tutor, or fellow at a college of Oxford or Cambridge; the equivalent of a college or university professor.
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Lord Byron (21).
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Byron, George Gordon Sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824). The great British romantic poet who was one of the leading figures of the romantic movement. Among his famous works are Manfred , Childe Harold, The Prisoner of Chillon, The Corsair, and Don Juan. His heroes were lonely, rebellious, and brooding. The handsome Byron was infamous for his unconventional lifestyle and his many love affairs. One of his famous loves was Lady Caroline Lamb, the wife of Viscount Melbourne. He was born with a clubfoot and, after years of wandering through Europe, died after while fighting for Greek independence from the Turks.
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Twickenham, Middlesex (21).
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Town on the Thames not far from London.
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DNB (21).
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Dictionary of National Biography.
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dwarf dahlia (22).
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A variety of plant native to the mountains of Central America, and Colombia. It has tuberous roots and showy, rayed, and variously colored flower heads.
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Martinique (22).
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A French island located in the Windward Islands of the West Indies. It was discovered by Columbus in 1502, it colonized by the French in 1635.
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folio (22).
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A large sheet of paper folded once in the middle, making two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript. When this refers to book or manuscript made of folio pages it would fifteen inches in height.
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Observer (22).
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England's oldest Sunday newspaper.
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Oxford (22).
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One of the most prestigious universities in the world located at Oxford, England. It originated in the early 12th century. It employs a system of residential colleges dating from the founding of University, Merton and Balliol colleges. It is currently made-up of over thirty-five colleges. The Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum are famous institutions which are part of the university.
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Brideshead Regurgitated (23).
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A reference to the 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh;
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Italian garden (23).
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Italian gardens of the 17th were complex in the dramatic baroque style using serpentine lines, spouting fountains, sculptured allegorical figures, and waterfalls. These were often copied in England.
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Brocket Hall (24).
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Residence of Lady Caroline Lamb.
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Cambridge (24).
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With Oxford, one of England's two most prestigious universities. Cambridge was founded in the early 12th century and might be older than Oxford. Like Oxford, it is made-up of a system of over thirty-one residential colleges. Cambridge was an important educational center in the Renaissance and of Reformation theology. Noted for the sciences, Cambridge was attended by Sir Isaac Newton.
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Coleridge (25).
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) was an English poet and literary figure and, with William Wordsworth, is considered to be a leader of the romantic movement. .His best known poem is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner published in 1798. He also wrote extensively on Shakespeare, religion, philosophy, and literature. He believed that poetry should concern itself with the relationship between man and nature without being overly stylized. With Robert Southey, he a utopian community for the United States which never actually materialized.
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Capability Brown (25).
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Launcelot Brown (1715-1783) was an English landscape architect. He is best-known for laying out the gardens at Blenheim and Kew.
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Claude (25).
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Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) was a French landscape painter.
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Virgil (25).
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The Roman poet (70-19 B.C.) who wrote the epic poem Aeneid recounting the wanderings of Aeneas following the sack of Troy and ending with the founding of Rome. Vergil had great influence on Dante and other poets. The Georgics, his pastoral writings, established the classical pastoral tradition refered to by Hannah.
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Gothic novel (25).
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A popular form of novel written in England in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth century. These mysteries and horror tales generally involved the supernatural and were set among haunted castles and ruins . Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. L. Lewis, the Bronte sisters, and Mary Shelley were notable writers of this genre.
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Peacock, Thomas Love (26).
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A self-educated English novelist and poet (1785-1866) and close friend of Shelley. He was also a clerk for the East India Company.
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anchorite (26).
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A person living apart from society for religious reasons. A hermit.
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Thackeray, William Makepeace.
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British novelist (1811-1863 whose best-known work is Vanity Fair featuring the unscrupulous Becky Sharp.
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The Cornhill Magazine (26).
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A work edited by Thackeray after 1860. It concerned itself with the hypocrisy, pretensions and amoral lives of his Victorian characters.
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East India Company (26).
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The British company chartered by the Crown for trade with Asia from 1600 to 1858. It brought great wealth to England through the export of tea and textiles from India and had great influence in Indian affairs.
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Blackfriars (26).
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Area in London along the north bank of the River Thames south of St. Paul's Cathedral.
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Epiphany (27).
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This usage refers to the comprehension or perception of the essence or meaning of something through a sudden intuitive realization
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Pottery gnome (27).
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A curious piece of British kitsch, this is a small figure of a gnome placed in gardens.
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Enlightenment (27).
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This refers to the Age of Reason or the Age of Enlightenment -- the humanitarian, rationalist, liberal, and scientific thought of the eighteenth-century in Europe wherein the state was viewed as a rational instrument for human progress. This was characterized by the scientific approach taken to social and political issues and was based upon the intellectual and scientific advances of the seventeenth century championed by promoters of natural law and universal order such as John Locke, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes and Spinoza. Enlightenment thinkers included Rousseau, Voltaire, Jonathon Swift, Hume, Kant, Montesquieu, and Lessing as well as Americans such as Thomas Jefferson.
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Romantic (27).
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Romanticism refers to the literary and artistic movements of the late 18th and 19th century which were a revolt against Classicism and philosophical. An outgrown of the egalitarian and libertarian principles of the French Revolution, Romanticism champions a return to nature and revels in individuality and the heroic. In Romanticism humankind is innately good and the senses and emotions are prized over reason and intellect. Nationalism as well as the exotic and primitive are celebrated by Romantic artists. Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats were all British romantic poets. Sir Walter Scott was among the most noted romantic novelists. Among the principle literary figures in France associated with this movement were Dumas, Hugo, George Sand, and de Musset. Goethe, Schiller and Heine led the German romantic movement. Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Berlioz and Chopin are among the greatest romantic composers of the period while the best-known painters included Delacroix and Turner.
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'Childe Harold' (28).
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a poem written in 1812 by Lord Byron narrating his European travels. Childe Harold, was the first stormy, young auto-biographical Byronic hero, shunning humanity and wandering through life guilty of mysterious past sins.
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (28).
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When his early work, Hours of Idleness, was ridiculed by the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron answered with a somewhat notorious satire entitled English Bards and Scotch Reviewers in 1809.
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Pall Mall (30).
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A famous and fashionable street in London, England. This is the site of St. James's Palace as well as many private clubs. The name comes from the name of a game which was played in front of the palace in the 17th century.
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Kent (30).
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A county in southeastern England located between the Strait of Dover on the south and southeast and the Thames estuary on the north.
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Channel Tunnel (30).
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The recently completed underwater train tunnel connecting England and France beneath the English Channel.
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Trinity (32).
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One of the colleges of Cambridge University.
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Harrow (32).
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The prestigious Harrow School was founded by a charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1571. Byron attended this public school.
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Beau Brummel (33). .
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George Bryan ("Beau") Brummell (1778-1840) was a British dandy who created new fashions for men. His styles included the wearing of elaborate neckwear and trousers rather than knee breeches. The term is used to refer to a fop or dandy.
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