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Radio 3,30 Apr 2014,15 mins

SeriesGeorgian Portraits

Amanda Vickery on Elizabeth Parker Shackleton

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In today's essay shedding light on key figures of the Georgian era, historian Amanda Vickery explores the life of gentlewoman Elizabeth Parker Shackleton, member of the lesser gentry and mercantile elite of 18th-century Lancashire. Producer: Mohini Patel.

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