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With friends possessed – a life of Edward FitzGerald

With friends possessed – a life of Edward FitzGerald. Robert Bernard Martin. London, Faber and Faber, 1985. 313 p. ISBN: 0571134629.

Summary:

Biography of Edward FitzGerald, describing him as an attractive, brilliant, eccentric, irrepressibly humorous, loving and deeply vulnerable person.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword
I Family and Childhood
II Cambridge
III Thackeray, Tennyson, and Browne
IV Mirehouse and Boulge Cottage
V Browne’s Marriage
VI Cowell and Barton
VII Euphranor
VIII Death of FitzGerald’s Parents
IX FitzGerald’s Marriage
X The Discovery of the Rubáiyát
XI Posh
XII Letters and Readers
XIII Settling Accounts
XIV Boulge Churchyard
Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index