Bruce Anderson

Some consumer advice: do not sell your daughter for a bottle of 90-year-old port

Oh, and don’t bother reading George Meredith

Novelist and poet George Meredith . Cartoon by 'Max', Vanity Fair, 1896 [Photo by Edward Gooch/Edward Gooch/Getty Images]

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