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- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: December 16, 1775
- Died: July 28, 1817
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Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
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