Right gender, Cologne...hence the small print run...2000 copies...publishers being men, paper being expensive, and retained copyright meaning the author took most of the risk.
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Or, more likely, Pride and Prejudice, as it was one of her early novels ?
Right author, Cologne, though the novel in question was 'Emma'. Interesting how little her work was known during her own lifetime. She made only a few hundred pounds from her writing overall.
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I know that her popularity grew over the course of time - inversely to that of Sir Walter Scott who was more widely read then than now. I've never got anywhere with her novels I admit. Will come up with a question soon.
Cheers Theo. Who was so bored working in a bookshop as a young man that he spent his time translating passages of the Bible into English, French and German ?
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I'd nearly forgotten about this Yorkie. Actually the question implies that he was translating into English, French and German from a fourth language - which may have been his own. Also he obviously had an interest in religious matters, but this is not what he became famous for.
Having implied in the last post that he was not British, he did actually live in Stockwell for a while. He also spent time as a Protestant missionary, but this is not what he became famous for. Altogether he lived in 4 countries - often financially supported by his younger brother.
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Time for more clues - better to stick with art. His artistic career only began aged 30 - up to that time his activities were mostly of a religious nature as a kind of Protestant missionary, though believing that it was incumbent on himself to live in poverty (like the people he was trying to help) the Church, predictably, didn't think much of him.
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Over to you Yorkie. Unbelievably Van Gogh didn't touch a paintbrush until he was 30 ! Despite his brother Theo being an art dealer. He had dreamt of being a Protestant missionary - and worked in that capacity amongst the miners in the south of Belgium. However, he was too revolutionary in that capacity and the church didn't like it. The bookshop where he was so bored was in Dordrecht (which is not the most exciting place in the World). Take it away.
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I thought it was him all along... but Stockwell threw me initially....
Where does margaret connect two parts of the same?
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Did you learn this on your holidays Yorkie ?
The Margid hid - or Margaret Bridge connects Buda with Pest.
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Yes you got it! We actually stayed in the Grand Budapest Hotel on the Island... Nothing quite like the film.. Very rlaxing Island though..Did you learn this on your holidays Yorkie ?
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