Berners Street
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Berners Street is a thoroughfare located to the north of Oxford Street in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, originally developed as a residential street in the mid-18th century by pro
Berners Street
Caricature of the Berners Street hoax
Amelia Opie
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Amelia Opie was an English author and abolitionist who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828. A Whig supporter and Bluestocking, Opie was also a leading abolitionist in Norwich.
1798 Portrait of Amelia Opie by her husband, John Opie
Amelia Opie by David d'Angers (1836)
Earlham Hall - where Opie was a frequent guest and met her husband, John
Illustration from the poetry book: The Black Man's Lament, Or, How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie (London, 1826)