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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 05, 1839
Page
3
The Fergusons presents a fashionable English society tale by Edmund Phipps, brother of Lord Normanby. It is praised for correct social depiction and restrained morality, with notable scenes from the Ladies' Dangler at the Horticultural Show and a Debate in the House.
Hinted advice on hosting meals covers avoiding disagreeable guests and controlling conversation. The piece discusses invitations, seating, and pacing, cites Rev John Ward’s diary and notes the London Medical Society’s preservation of his seventeenth century manuscripts.
The letter notes Shakespeare had two daughters one married by a physician named Hall and one granddaughter to the Lady Bernard of Abbingdon. It claims Shakespeare was a natural wit, lived at Stratford in later years earning 1000 pounds yearly, and died of a fever after a merry meeting with Drayton and Ben Johnson. It urges reading Shakespeare to avoid ignorance and questions Heylin’s list of English dramatists without including Shakespeare.
The article surveys Stratford lineage the Lucies and historic ties to Cherlcote Park, critiques Dr Severn and Ward on Shakespeare's illness and death, and cites remarks by Dr Severity, Lambert, and Milton while flagging disputes over authenticity and credit.
Lords discuss separate confinement and a model prison with guards and safeguards. Malta debate rages over press censorship, libel scope, and calls to suspend the ordinance while contested editorials are cited and figures clash over free press versus stability.
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