This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet’s rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falsehood in the legend which has grown around him.
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“A beautifully written and vastly entertaining book.” – Guardian
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This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet?s rich personality. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, Brendon re-creates one of the most bizarre of Victorian lives, revealing the mixture of truth, over-simplification and falsehood in the legend which has grown around him.
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