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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV volume 1, by Charles Greville (edited by Henry Reeve), published 1874, diary, 619 pages. Hot dang, I loved this. Even though I know very little about nineteenth-century politics in Britain (so far, anyway), these memoirs are what I never knew I wanted. Here are some sample passages, starting with Greville’s grumblings about George IV (who reminds me of a certain orange menace): There never was such a man, or b...