In THE BISHOP'S WIFE we see William Pitt the Younger through the
eyes of Elizabeth, the wife of Bishop Pretyman, who was Pitt's
tutor and one of his closest friends. We see how funny and friendly
Pitt was in private. As Elizabeth's story unfolds we encounter a
breath taking gallery of eighteenth century leading lights, both
social and political: William Wilberforce, Henry Dundas, 1st
Viscount Melville, George Canning, George Castlereagh, Sir John
Moore, and, not least, Lord Horatio Nelson and the Duke of
Wellington. We see the King and Queen, the poet William Wordsworth
and painter J. M. W Turner, all in a vivid social and political
setting as England faces turbulent times, and as she defeats
Napoleon to gain control of the seas and consolidate her empire.
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