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Baron Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892 Fiction Clare, John 1793-1864 Mental health Fiction Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1844-1889 Fiction Jesuits England Fiction London (England) Social conditions 19th century Fiction Mentally ill Commitment and detention England London History 19th century Fiction Poets, English 19th century Fiction Poets, English 19th century Mental health Fiction Psychiatric hospitals England London History 19th century FictionHansen, Ron
Summary: Exiled for their religious beliefs in 1875, five nuns embark on a voyage to America, only to lose their lives when the ship runs aground, in a tale that inspires a grand poem by a doomed priest and Oxford scholar living in literary exile.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010