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Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London
by Vic Gatrell.
Cambridge, 451 pp., £25, May 2022,978 1 108 83848 1 Show More
by Vic Gatrell.
Cambridge, 451 pp., £25, May 2022,
“... no discontent to create it.Only a few days after the five Cato Street plotters were executed, Charles Lamb in ‘The Three Graves’ was reserving a special place in hell for the spies:I ask’d the fiend, for whom these rites were meant?‘These graves,’ quoth he, ‘when life’s brief oil is spent,When the dark night comes, and they’re sinking ... ”