“But the charm of a plan like that is so substantive and per se that it is really independent of fulfilment: though it never blossom into performance, one has the flower in the bud.”
About Sydney Dobell
5 April 1824–22 August 1874
Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…