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known in Bath during occasional though often protracted, 

 visits. Amongst these were Burke, Pope, Goldsmith, 

 Walpole, SmoUet, Shenstone, Gibbon, Johnson, Boswell, 

 Wilberforce, Britton, Southey, Wordsworth, Walter Scott, 

 Lady Bulwer Lytton, Mrs. TroUope and Lucy Aikin. In 

 the list of permanent residents in and near Bath, or inti- 

 mately connected with it, we find John Hales, William 

 Prynne, Bishop Butler, Bishop Warburton, Lord Chester- 

 field, Henry Fielding, Richard Graves, William Melmoth, 

 Christopher Anstey — all of the former generations. Amongst 

 successive ladies who lived here we have Lady Miller, 

 Madame Piozzi, Madame d'Arblay, Mrs. Macauley, Miss 

 Fielding, Sophia Lee, Harriet Bowdler, Ann Radcliffe, Jane 

 Austen, and Frances Burney ; and of medical men, Drs. 

 Guidott, Johnson, Sherwen, Sibthorpe, Harington, Gibbs, 

 Parry, Pring, W. Falconer, and T. Falconer. The mis- 

 cellaneous list also includes Sheridan, Lyons, Thicknesse, 

 Warner, W. L. Bowles, Thomas Moore, Douce, Malthus, 

 Mangin, Maclaine, Vivian, Sir W. Napier, Horace Twiss, 

 Thomas Cogan, J. E. Reade, T. Haynes Bayley, Bishop 

 Baines, Joseph Hunter, Walter Wilson, W. L. Nichols, 

 William Beckford, Francis Kilvert, Dr. Sweeney, Robert 

 Wallace, J. H. Markland, Prebendary Ford, D. Johnstone, 

 W. S.Landor, and Bishop Thirlwall. These all lived in or 

 near Bath, benefiting in some cases a small, in others a large 

 class of readers. While the few were interested in metaphy- 

 sical lore, antiquarian study, or theological erudition, the 

 many were charmed by light literature. Pilgrims from distant 

 lands sometimes linger here to see where Squire AUworthy 

 lived, the scene of the School for Scandal, the houses of 

 Jane Austen and Hannah Moore, the garden from which 

 the Herschels "swept the heavens," the stately tomb of 



