Hi Super Sleuths,

 Here is a FIND!  Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which  Rob Illingworth has dug up.  They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link.

 Sir (Samuel) Egerton Brydges- S.E. Brydges bought & rebuilt the manor at Denton. He wrote poetry & a novel: Arthur Fitz-Albini. The latter was semi-autobiographical and deeply upset his country neighbours. Jane Austen read this novel but thought it poor. She may have satirised S.E. Brydges as Sir Walter in Persuasion. But Brydges was the Reading Detective of his day: Brydges was enormously productive in republishing long-forgotten works of literature, particularly of the Tudor period. He disparaged these achievements, but his real talent rested in that field.