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Article: Books: The King of India
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 13, 1994
- Author:
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LATE IN life, Lord Curzon would muse about "the eternal
gullibility of children" on the subject of where babies come from.
In his own youth, he had been told that his many younger brothers
and sisters originated in a clump of nettles in the woods at his
father's ancestral home at Kedleston. He recalled that he used to
command expeditions to find fresh ones. "We always thought it an
extraordinary place for them to be found," he wrote. "But it never
occurred to us to doubt it."
A willingness to accept dominant myths is the theme of this
absorbing, witty and intelligent biography. There never was a
Victorian more eminent than Curzon, nor one whose very name
conjured up a prouder, more ...
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