THE

LIVELY LADY TOWNSHEND

AND HER FRIENDS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

LONDON'S LOST THEATRES OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

bare-necked Etebeda.

ETHELREDA, VISCOUNTESS TOWNSHEND

From a portrait by Zincke, formerly in the possession of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill. Now the property of Lady Agnes Durham

Photograph by Nicholas Durham, Esq.

THE

LIVELY LADY TOWNSHEND

AND HER FRIENDS

AN EFFORT TO SET FORTH THE DOINGS
AND THE SURROUNDINGS OF A TYPICAL LADY
OF QUALITY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BY

ERROLL SHERSON

"So he looked silently at the days that were, as they
came dancing back again to him from where they had long
lain lost in chasms of Time."-Chronicles of Rodriguez.
LORD DUNSANY.

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