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Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions

Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions

FromThe TLS Podcast


Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions

FromThe TLS Podcast

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week, Lucy Dallas is joined by Kathryn Sutherland to tuck into the three o'clock dinners of Joseph Johnson, publisher and friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, Joseph Priestley, Henry Fuseli, Williams Blake and Wordsworth, and many more great minds of that era. And Boyd Tonkin explains that Napoleon's conqueror, the "Iron Duke" of Wellington, had a great and unexpected gift for friendship - with women.'Dinner with Joseph Johnson' by Daisy Hay'Wellington, women and friendship' at Apsley House, London, until October 30Produced by Sophia Franklin See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
May 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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