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She quotes the Earl of Rochester – "Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theorie" – and something of the earl's agreeable pragmatism informs her thought.
All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion by Lisa Appignanesi – review 2011
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Thomas Lyon, play in the relationship and was the two brothers 'closeness perhaps a factor in the failure of Mary and the earl's marriage?
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Often it is a small specific detaillike the bill which mentioned lettuce for the young tenth earl's tortoisethat can bring out the human element in a story.
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Thomas Lyon, play in the relationship and was the two brothers 'closeness perhaps a factor in the failure of Mary and the earl's marriage?
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Thomas Lyon, play in the relationship and was the two brothers 'closeness perhaps a factor in the failure of Mary and the earl's marriage?
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The earl's mother, the dowager countess, treats everyone other than her son as a lower species.
The Secret Appeal of 'Downton Abbey' Theodore Dalrymple 2012
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Back home later and now played by Matthew Macfadyen, of "Pride and Prejudice" fame he marries an earl's pudgy daughter and settles into a boring life of unproductive leisure.
Where the Time Goes Nancy deWolf Smith 2011
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Mary's detention of Sussex's son changed the earl's mind.
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Kidnapping an earl's son and threatening a local magnate were not the means to prolong one's life in mid-Tudor England.
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She's spoilt, glamorous and very, very posh – an earl's daughter.
Meet the rising stars of Any Human Heart Killian Fox 2010
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