The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity
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The notorious Sir John Hill : the man destroyed by ambition in the era of celebrity
Lehigh University Press , Rowman & Littlefield, c2012
- : cloth
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"Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. "--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-380) and index
Contents of Works
- The mountebank's road out
- Amidst the trees in Sussex
- Apothecary Hill, almost FRS
- Deranged by disappointment
- Three strikes in revenge
- Man of letters
- Puffing "Inspector Hill"
- The "lion" at the Bedford
- Riot in Ranelagh
- Hill and the "fame machine"
- Canning and marriage
- Philosophy and botany, and history
- Botany and Bute
- Hill and Linnaeus
- The theater too?
- Annus mirabilis 1758-59
- The final blow
- Knighthood and death
- Lady Hill persists
- Forgotten Hill
- Afterword: on the trail of John Hill