About time we got some actual Thomas Hardy instead of endless Jane Austen. Return of the Native! The Woodlanders! The Mayor of Casterbridge! (But not Far from the Madding Crowd -- I had to read that for O-Level).
Gillian Russell
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Professor Emerita at the University of York, UK, living in Canberra, Australia. Author of The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability and the Cultures of Collecting (2020). Born and educated in Northern Ireland.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
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