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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n17/terry-eagleton/jack-in-the-belfry

by pepys • 10 years ago

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pepys• 10 years ago

Just want to point out two truly outstanding eccentric English names mentioned in the article. Straight out of Dickens:

Urania Wallop: "Not long after the botched elopement/abduction, Urania ordered that her son be strapped to his bed."

Coulson Wallop: "[Jane Austen] was, however, less impressed by his dim-witted younger brother Coulson, whom she regarded as a cad given to drunken habits and indelicate language."

gumby• 10 years ago

"Wallop’s uncle had been elected master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, but according to one contemporary observer was completely illiterate."

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