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<p>In 'Some Eccentrics & a Woman,' Lewis Melville weaves an intricate tableau of 18th-century British society through meticulously crafted biographical vignettes of its most colorful outliers. With an eye for the peculiar and a deft hand in simple yet evocative language, Melville brings to the fore the individual quirks and contributions of figures like 'Peter Pindar,' the assertive satirist, and the enigmatic William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, ...Seguir leyendo