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Jack in the Belfry (lrb.co.uk)
13 points by pepys on Sept 2, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Just want to point out two truly outstanding eccentric English names mentioned in the article. Straight out of Dickens:

Urania Wallop: "Not long after the botched elopement/abduction, Urania ordered that her son be strapped to his bed."

Coulson Wallop: "[Jane Austen] was, however, less impressed by his dim-witted younger brother Coulson, whom she regarded as a cad given to drunken habits and indelicate language."


"Wallop’s uncle had been elected master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, but according to one contemporary observer was completely illiterate."




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