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As for who or what Eulalie is, and why it reduces Spode to jelly, you’ll have to read the book.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
He said he had a "particular interest in Spode with its history of design continuity over hundreds of years".
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
Conveniently, Spode and Wooster travel in the same Wodehouse-world circles — London clubs, the Ritz, Quaglino’s, the theater, Savile Row tailors and weekend country house parties — mooting the impingement question.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018
Its tech-based success story looms large in a city once dominated by its potteries, such as Wedgwood, Spode and Royal Doulton.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018
More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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