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207 years ago today.. 21:39 - Oct 9 with 898 views

howenjack

http://gowerhiddenhistory.blogspot.com/2015/08/12-how-suicide-at-city-hotel-was-

207 years ago today.. on 13:40 - Oct 14 with 741 views

Boundy

I do like local history, thanks

"In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master."

207 years ago today.. on 14:38 - Oct 15 with 673 views

EagleEye

Interesting piece & something that very few would have been aware of regards the history of Swansea. Thanks for posting.

207 years ago today.. on 21:43 - Oct 18 with 557 views

howenjack

207 years ago today.. on 14:38 - Oct 15 by EagleEye
Interesting piece & something that very few would have been aware of regards the history of Swansea. Thanks for posting.

No Problem ... Fanny Imlay was the lesser light in the William Godwin household and basically felt inferior to her half sister Mary Shelley . She intimated in a letter to the family that she was going to end it . Shelley himself tried to get to Swansea before she killed herself . Unfortunately it was too late and an overdose of laudunum (Opium mixed in red wine ) proved fatal. That was the drug of choice for many in those days see Thomas de Quincy - Confessions of an opium eater . Samuel Taylor Coleridge also was a big user writing the poem Kubla Khan after becoming unconscious in a field in the Quantock hills.

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