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Raymond N. MacKenzie: Jules Verne’s Fantasy, 9 July 2026

Journey to the Moon 
by Jules Verne, translated by David Coward with William Butcher.
Oxford, 353 pp., £9.99, August 2025, 978 0 19 894178 1
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... were published separately, Verne conceived of them as a single unit. This new translation by David Coward and William Butcher, with an introduction and extensive notes by Butcher, brings both novels together under the title Journey to the Moon. Like many in Europe, Verne ...

The Vicar of Chippenham

Christopher Haigh: Religion and the life-cycle, 15 October 1998

Birth, Marriage and Death: Ritual, Religion and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England 
by David Cressy.
Oxford, 641 pp., £25, May 1998, 0 19 820168 0
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... please), and all who made ‘rather a May game of marriage, than a holy institution of God’. William Gouge, a London minister, was a little more relaxed: in 1622 he allowed ‘all those lawful customs that are used for the setting forth of the outward solemnity thereof, as meeting of friends, accompanying the bridegroom and bride both to and from the ...

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