4 June 1838: The low-church Leeds Library censors a high-church novel in which a shady young evangelical clergyman wins the affections of a wealthy young widow
William Smith, Ed. 1882. Old Yorkshire, Vol. 3. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Get it:
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Suppressed: Mrs Trollope’s Vicar of Wrexhill, on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.
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4th June, 1838. Suppressed: Mrs. Trollope’s ‘Vicar of Wrexhill,’ on the ground of its appearing to be indecent and of an immoral tendency.
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