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“Bishop Blaise the Ash-Waddler” (1823)

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This is imaginative prose written for a London literary magazine, published in 1823 and set vaguely in “the Spring of 18-“, not a match report or an eyewitness account of a named event. Its worth lies in what it assumes its readers already recognised. A first-person sketch, comic and heavily dialectal, in which the narrator […]