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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...old timbered houses, with quaintly carven heads, is a quiet enough place to-day, though it is believed to have been an important one centuries agone. Its liveliest times now are when race meetings are held, for Wye is one of our Kentish centres familiar to the horse-racing fraternity. The chief worthies of the small town are AphraBehn, the seventeenth century dramatist and novelist, John Sawbridge, Lord Mayor of London, and zealous upholder of Wilkes, and Sawbridge''s sister, Mrs. Catherine Macaulay, the historian. Canterbury was. long regarded as having the distinction of being the birthplace of Aphra Behn, the first female writer who lived by her pen in England. But Mr. Edmund Gosse some years ago ascertained that she was born at Wye, for there she was baptized on July 1oth, 1640. The daughter of a local barber named Johnson, she came to be one of the most noted authors and wits of her time, she was the George Sand of the Restoration, the chere maltre to such men as Dryden, Otway, and Southerne, who all honoured her with their friendship; she is to be remembered as the introducer of milk punch into England, and as one of the few women whose talents in life gained for them in death burial in Westminster Abbey. Lord Mayor Sawbridge, who takes us from literature to politics, was born at Olantigh--the park of which occupies much of the hillside from here to Godmersham--where also had been born the fifteenth century Archbishop Kempe, who rebuilt Wye Church. Sawbridge''s name is familiar to those who have followed the story of Wilkes''s life at all closely. As Sheriff of London he five times returned Wilkes as duly elected for Middlesex in defiance of the House of Commons, and, to balance his townswoman''s introduction of milk punch, was sai... Walter Jerrold, Books, Travel, Highways And Byways In Kent; By Walter Jerrold Books>Travel, General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 1153381095

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ISBN: 1153381095

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2012, ISBN: 9781153381093

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