Books
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As good as God, as clever as the devil | Rodney Bolt | "Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to be Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie - as Mary Ben… | OL28600514W |
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The Librettist of Venice | Rodney Bolt | "Born into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, Lorenzo Da Ponte would go on to become a Catholic, a priest, a poet, a passionate lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teac… | OL3742129W |