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... today even our débutantes are presented at a Garden Court, followed by a more or less picnic tea on the lawn. All classes and ranks share in this taste ...

— Georgina Battiscombe English Picnics (1949)

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A picnic is the Englishman's grand gesture ...

English Picnics (1949)

Considerable difficulties, however, beset the way of Catherine Gladstone's biographer. Her life was so much bound up with her husband's career that to write an orthodox biography would merely be to repeat the story which has already been told with such fullness and brilliance by Lord Morley and Sir Philip Magnus.

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