Background
He was born at Whyteleafe, Surrey and served in the Royal Air Force during World World War II before studying history at Keble College, Oxford.
(Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively social...)
Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively social history of Hogarth's England went into a second edition with a new preface and updated notes and guide to further reading. 'This panorama of eighteenth-century English life ...Methodists and melancholia, village cricketers versified to glory and homosexuals pilloried to death, he has an eye and a word for everything in the pullulating scene...
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( Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively soci...)
Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively social history of Hogarth's England is now reissued in paperbound with a new preface and updated bibliography and notes.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300036094/?tag=2022091-20
He was born at Whyteleafe, Surrey and served in the Royal Air Force during World World War II before studying history at Keble College, Oxford.
Keble College.
He is best known for his edition of Horace Walpole"s Memoirs of the Reign of King George III, and perhaps for his sometimes acerbic reviews in the New York Review of Books. Jarrett taught at Sherborne School in Dorset until the mid-1960s, then at Goldsmith"s College of the University of London for the remainder of his academic career. Around 1990 he retired to Cornwall to complete work on his Walpole masterpiece, which was published in 1999.
He died at Truro in Cornwall.
(Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively social...)
( Widely acclaimed when first published, this lively soci...)
(The Ingenious Mr Hogarth)