George Saintsbury
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George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA, an English critic, literary historian, editor, teacher, and wine connoisseur, gained a reputation as a highly influential literary critic of the late-19th and ea
Photograph by James Lafayette (c. 1910)
Saintsbury in March 1895 edition of The Bookman (New York City)
Original title page for Saintsbury's The English Novel (1913)
Royal Crescent
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The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger, and built between 1767 and 1774, it is
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…held until 1915. During his time in Edinburgh, he was a member of the Scottish Arts Club. In his retirement, he continued to write, while living at 1A Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset. He died there in 1933, at the age of 87. His first book, A Primer of French Literature (1880), and his Short History of French Literature…
Royal Crescent from a hot air balloon, contrasting its uniform public front façade against its more architecturally varied private rear.
The Royal Crescent in Bath by Thomas Malton 1780
Ha-ha in front of the Royal Crescent
The completion of the building work in 1769