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...The (supposed) lifestyle of the old country parson remains catnip to the affluent English, as the enormous prices commanded by former village parsonages testify....
...“Almost the first slide I picked up was labelled ‘C. Darwin Esq.’ This turned out to be a piece of fossil wood collected by Darwin during his famous voyage on the Beagle in 1834.”...
...Members of this spectacularly well-dressed, self-possessed group – Djuna Barnes, Janet Flanner, Betty Parsons – arranged themselves for the lens of Berenice Abbott, who had not yet become secretive about...
...From them, Parsons has restored the city to life....
...The engineer Charles Parsons was responsible for one breakthrough innovation, the turbine generator, in 1888....
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