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Anstey, Christopher (1724–1805), author of the New Bath Guide (1766), later illustrated by Cruikshank (1830), which consists of a series of letters in colloquial verse describing the adventures of squire Blunderhead and his family in Bath.
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Christopher Anstey

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Christopher Anstey , 1724-1805, English poet and satirist. He is known chiefly for The New Bath Guide (1766), a series of poetical episodes humorously depicting contemporary life at Bath. This work was widely read in its time and may have influenced Tobias Smollet's Humphrey Clinker.

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