https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/31/alex-preston-novelist-banker/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/31/alex-preston-novelist-banker/#comment-418780 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:41:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=6291#comment-418780 I’ve never read This Bleeding City, but I’ve heard great things about it. I can’t wait to pick up a copy!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/03/31/alex-preston-novelist-banker/#comment-508 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:26:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=6291#comment-508 At the same time as Kenneth Grahame there was Edward Clodd, secretary of the London Joint Stock Bank. Clodd, whose own contributions to literature are mainly in the worlds of folklore, freethinking, and the early popularization of evolution, was known as “the friend of genius, and the genius of friendship”.

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