Jack in the Belfry
Terry Eagleton, 8 September 2016
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
by Elizabeth Foyster.
Oneworld, 368 pp., £20, September 2016,978 1 78074 960 0 Show More
by Elizabeth Foyster.
Oneworld, 368 pp., £20, September 2016,
“... escape from a home where he was stripped of authority and placed under constant surveillance. As Elizabeth Foyster remarks in her assiduously researched, crisply written biography, ‘nobody was interested in the grievances of a low-born French speaker when they stood opposed to the words of an honourable English nobleman and his family.’ Not long ... ”
