The Improvisatore

Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton, Bristol on 30th June 1803, the son of Dr. Thomas and Anna Beddoes. He was a radical doctor, known for his pioneering use of nitrous oxide and a friend to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and she was the sister of the noted novelist Maria Edgeworth Beddoes was five when his father died but had lived his early years surrounded by the tools and tables of his father’s trade. The next chapter in his life was spent in the comfortable and literary circle of his mother