About the Author

freelance author and biographer. His most recent work, The Banker Poet: The Rise and Fall of Samuel Rogers, 17631855, followed A Life Lived Quickly: Arthur Hallam and his Legend, described in the Times Literary Supplement as scrupulously fair-minded . . . balanced and believable'. Martin Blocksidge was Head of English at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and Director of Studies at St. Dunstan's College, London, and former President of The English Association.