CJ Fox, William Pitt and the Prince Regent were just a few of the much larger than life characters that the artists gleefully lampooned. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. They were the memes of their time, with people crowding to see the new illustrations in the windows of the publishers. As wittily subversive and deeply entertaining as the material it details, Alice Loxton's Uproar is a delightful romp through the colourful and controversial eighteenth century.

I also personally wasn’t a fan of the fabricated dialogue and the numerous heavy-handed comparative references to modern pop culture for humorous effect didn’t really work for me either, but that’s just a matter of personal taste rather than quality. I have long loved the satirical drawings of Georgian England and have wished to learn more about them, since, while they often illustrate books on the era, they are rarely spoken of in any detail. An anthology of short stories that stretch across multiple universes and beyond death—and demonstrate the strength of the human spirit to find hope and seek a better tomorrow in even the darkest times.

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Because brilliant satirist James Gillray portrayed him as a toddler having a tantrum and the image became so pervasive in Georgian a England that the image is still with us today. Easily one of the most influential science-fiction novels of all time, this 1921 masterpiece inspired George Orwell’s 1984and became the first book ever banned by the Soviet Union.Alice is a tour de force, and her magnificent debut showcases her star quality and her talent for storytelling.