Add this copy of Derbyshire Portraits to cart. $11.85, good condition, Sold by Cortezhill Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Dalesman Books.
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Good. edge and back cover and some pages bent, wrinkled, and dented. spots on back cover, foxing on front. dents, chips, and edge wear. no marks on text. 80 pages, 8: x 5 1/4", Over two dozen biographical sketches of Derbyshire personalities who, for one reason or another, have been remembered beyond their own day and generation: Joan Waste (1544-1566), The Derby Martyr; Margaret Stafford (C.1540-1610), The Lamp of St. Helen; Dorthy Mately (-1660), A 17th Cetury Sapphira; A Tragic Trilogy, Stories of Eyam Plague; Martha Taylor (1649-1684), The Fasting Samsel; Anne Fearne (1662-1703), Married at Miners Arms; Hannah Baddaley (1738-1764), Of Lovers Leap Fame; Jedediah Bexton (1707-1772), The Mathematical Marvel; James Brindley (1716-1772), The Canal Engineer; John Whitehurst (1713-1778), Clockmaker and Geologist; Penelope Boothby (1785-1791), The Mob Cap; Joseph Wright (1734-1797), The Derby Artist; Grace Murray (-1804), The Broken Heart; Molly Bray (1720-1811), The Ashford Dwarf; Kitty Hudson (1765-), The Human Pincushion; William Newton (1750-1830), The Minstrel of the Peak; Elizabeth Evans (1776-1849), The Dinah Morris of Adam Bede; Phoebe Brown (-1854), The Amazon of Matlock Green; Edward Foster, The Silhouettist; John Smedley (1803-1874), Pioneer of Hydropathy; Samuel Fox (1815-1887), Inventor of the Paragon Umbrella Frame; Florrie Carter (1875-1907), A Missionary Pioneer; Samuel Sellors and Thomas Greatorex, A Preacher and an Organist.