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Ebeneezer Elliot
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Ebeneezer Elliot : Corn Law Rhymes
'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement of the Mind". Read part of "Corn Law Rhymes" to my friends. G. Ward was then added to the number- staid up till 11 o'clock.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Book
Ebeneezer Elliott :
'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry Taylor, Ebeneezer Elliott, Philip James Bailey, and Sir Lewis Morris'.
