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A biography of William Beckford that provides a look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar…

William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, an art collector and patron, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician. He is remembered as the author of the Gothic novel…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Title: Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal. By the author of Vathek [i.e. W. Beckford].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Full Title: William Beckford, Esq; Appellant, John Campbell, Esq; Respondent

Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years…

August 4th.–The heats were so excessive in the night, that I thought myself several times on the point of suffocation, tossed about like a wounded fish, and dreamt of the…