"My learned and accomplished friend, , has written a most interesting history, entitled One Generation of a Norfolk House. It is more or less the history of the in early times."
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Lady Dorothy Nevill
(née Walpole; 1 April 1826 – 24 March 1913) was an English , social and political hostess, conversationist, cultural philanthropist, , and collector of plants, exotic animals, and art. Born into the aristocratic , she married into the and was a founding member of the Primrose League.
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