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

George Rousseau

Lehigh University Press , Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

  • : cloth

Available at  / 2 libraries

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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

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