Author: WRAXALL, NATHANIEL WILLIAM
Title: Historical Memoirs of My Own Time. Volume 2
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Facsimile Edition. Original Wrappers. ISBN: 1108061230. 602 pages. Stamped Damaged on verso title page. Otherwise in new condition. ; Paperback; Octavo; Sir Nathanial William Wraxall (1751__1831) , traveller and writer, served as an MP from 1780 to 1794 and was made a baronet in 1813. Upon publication in 1815, his memoirs were an immediate, though controversial, success: 1, 000 copies sold out within five weeks. Accused of libelling a Russian diplomat, and found guilty, Wraxall brought out this second edition later that same year, with the offending passages removed. Volume 2 comprises the majority of the second, and more controversial, part of the work, which covers 1781__4. Wraxall's early parliamentary years were a difficult period in England, the American War of Independence dominating Lord North's administration until his unexpected resignation on 20 March 1782. The 'great despondency' continued; nevertheless, Wraxall's colourful delineations of Fox and Burke, the Earl of Shelburne, Sheridan and Pitt, as well as 'the less efficient members of the cabinet', make for an entertaining read.. As New with no dust jacket .

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