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From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
Date: 20080705
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Bristol, long famous for its hard-headed money- making, was in the last decade of the 18th century buzzing with culture.

Scientist Thomas Beddoes and assistants Humphry Davy and Paul Roget, later of Thesaurus fame, were working on gases at their Pneumatic Institute in Dowry Square, writers Hannah More and Maria Edgeworth were winning a national reputation, and the young Bristol poet Robert Southey had invited his friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge to the city.

On the fringe of this social circle was a bookseller called Joseph Cottle, and it was this forgotten figure who, from his ...

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