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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

by John Timbs

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Wealth and Fashion
  3. Delusions, Impostures, and Fanatic Missions
  4. Strange Sights and Sporting Scenes
  5. Theatrical Folks
  6. Men of Letters
  7. Convivial Eccentricities
  8. Miscellanea
  9. The Beckfords and Fonthill
  10. Alderman Beckford's Monument Speech, in Guildhall
  11. Beau Brummel
  12. Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart
  13. "Romeo" Coates
  14. Abraham Newland
  15. The Spendthrift Squire of Halston, John Mytton
  16. Lord Petersham
  17. The King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands
  18. Sir Edward Dering's Luckless Courtship
  19. Gretna-Green Marriages
  20. The Agapemone, or Abode of Love
  21. Singular Scotch Ladies
  22. Mrs. Bond, of Hackney
  23. John Ward, the Hackney Miser
  24. "Poor Man of Mutton."
  25. Lord Kenyon's Parsimony
  26. Mary Moser, the Flower-Painter
  27. The Eccentric Miss Banks
  28. Thomas Cooke, the Miser of Pentonville
  29. Thomas Cooke, the Turkey Merchant
  30. "Lady Lewson," of Clerkenwell
  31. Profits of Dust-sifting, and Dust-heaps
  32. Sir John Dinely, Bart
  33. The Rothschilds
  34. A Legacy of Half a Million of Money
  35. Eccentricities of the Earl of Bridgewater
  36. The Denisons, and the Conyngham Family
  37. "Dog Jennings."
  38. Baron Ward's Remarkable Career
  39. A Costly House-Warming
  40. Devonshire Eccentrics
  41. Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier
  42. Lady Archer
  43. Modern Alchemists
  44. Jack Adams, the Astrologer
  45. The Woman-hating Cavendish
  46. Modern Astrology.—"Witch Pickles."
  47. Hannah Green; or, "Ling Bob."
  48. Oddities of Lady Hester Stanhope
  49. Hermits and Eremitical Life
  50. The Recluses of Llangollen
  51. Snuff-taking Legacies
  52. Burial Bequests
  53. Burials on Box Hill and Leith Hill
  54. Jeremy Bentham's Bequest of his Remains
  55. The Marquis of Anglesey's Leg
  56. The Cottle Church
  57. Horace Walpole's Chattels saved by a Talisman
  58. Norwood Gipsies
  59. "Cunning Mary," of Clerkenwell
  60. Jerusalem Whalley
  61. Father Mathew and the Temperance Movement
  62. Eccentric Preachers
  63. Irving a Millenarian
  64. A Trio of Fanatics
  65. The Spenceans
  66. Joanna Southcote, and the Coming of Shiloh
  67. The Founder of Mormonism
  68. Huntington, the Preacher
  69. Amen
  70. Strangely Eccentric, yet Sane
  71. Strange Hallucination
  72. "Corner Memory Thompson."
  73. Mummy of a Manchester Lady
  74. Hypochondriasis
  75. "The Wonder of all the Wonders that the World ever Wondered at."
  76. "The Princess Caraboo."
  77. Fat Folks.—Lambert and Bright
  78. A Cure for Corpulence
  79. Epitaphs on Fat Folks
  80. Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf
  81. The Irish Giant
  82. Birth Extraordinary
  83. William Hutton's "Strong Woman."
  84. Wildman and His Bees
  85. Lord Stowell's love of Sight-seeing
  86. John Day and Fairlop Fair
  87. A Princely Hoax
  88. Sir John Waters's Escape
  89. Colonel Mackinnon's Practical Joking
  90. A Gourmand Physician
  91. Dick England, the Gambler
  92. Brighton Races, Thirty Years Since
  93. Colonel Mellish
  94. Doncaster Eccentrics
  95. "Walking Stewart."
  96. Youthful Days of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley
  97. What Became of the Seven Dials
  98. An Old Bailey Character
  99. Bone and Shell Exhibition
  100. "Quid Rides?"
  101. "Bolton Trotters."
  102. Eccentric Lord Coleraine
  103. Eccentric Travellers
  104. Elegy on a Geologist
  105. Gilray and his Caricatures
  106. William Blake, Painter and Poet
  107. Nollekens, the Sculptor
  108. The Young Roscius
  109. Hardham's "No 37."
  110. Rare Criticism
  111. The O. P. Riot
  112. Origin of "Paul Pry."
  113. Mrs. Garrick
  114. Mathews, a Spanish Ambassador
  115. Grimaldi, the Clown
  116. Munden's Last Performance
  117. Oddities of Dowton
  118. Liston in Tragedy
  119. Boyhood of Edmund Kean
  120. A Mysterious Parcel
  121. Masquerade Incident
  122. Mr. T. P. Cooke in Melodrama and Pantomime
  123. "Romeo and Juliet" in America
  124. The Mulberries, a Shakspearian Club
  125. Colley Cibber's Daughter
  126. An Eccentric Love-Passage
  127. True to the Text
  128. Men of Letters
  129. Porson's Eccentricities
  130. Parriana: Oddities of Dr. Parr
  131. Oddities of John Horne Tooke
  132. Mr. Canning's Humour
  133. Peter Pindar.—Dr. Wolcot
  134. The Author of "Dr. Syntax."
  135. Mrs. Radcliffe and the Critics
  136. Cool Sir James Mackintosh
  137. Eccentricities of Cobbett
  138. Heber, the Book-Collector
  139. Sir John Soane Lampooned
  140. Extraordinary Calculators
  141. Charles Lamb's Cottage at Islington
  142. Thomas Hood
  143. A Witty Archbishop
  144. Literary Madmen
  145. A Perpetual-Motion Seeker
  146. The Romantic Duchess of Newcastle
  147. Sources of Laughter
  148. Busby's Folly and Bull Feather Hall
  149. Old Islington Taverns
  150. The Oyster and Parched-Pea Club
  151. A Manchester Punch-House
  152. "The Blue Key."
  153. Brandy in Tea
  154. "The Wooden Spoon."
  155. A Tipsy Village
  156. What an Epicure Eats in his Life-Time
  157. Epitaph on Dr. William Maginn
  158. Greenwich Dinners
  159. Lord Pembroke's Port Wine
  160. A tremendous Bowl of Punch
  161. Long Sir Thomas Robinson
  162. Lord Chesterfield's Will
  163. An Odd Family
  164. An Eccentric Host
  165. Quackery Successful
  166. The Grateful Footpad
  167. A Notoriety of the Temple
  168. A Ride in a Sedan
  169. Mr. John Scott (Lord Eldon) in Parliament
  170. A Chancery Jeu-d'Esprit
  171. Hanging by Compact
  172. The Ambassador Floored
  173. "The Dutch Mail."
  174. Bad Spelling
  175. A "Single" Conspirator
  176. A Miscalculation
  177. An Indiscriminate Collector
  178. The Bishops' Saturday Night
  179. "Rather Than Otherwise."
  180. Classic Soup Distribution
  181. Alphabet Single Rhymed
  182. Non Sequitur and Therefore

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