AT ALL BOOKSELLERS.
WORD PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS WRITERS.
Edited by MABEL E. WOTTON.
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‘“The world has always been fond of personal details respecting men who have been celebrated.” These were the words of Lord Beaconsfield, and with them he prefixed his description of the personal appearance of Isaac d’Israeli.... The above work contains an account of the face, figure, dress, voice, and manner of our best known writers, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Mrs. Henry Wood—drawn in all cases, when it is possible, by their contemporaries. British writers only are named, and amongst them no living author.’—From the Preface.
CONTENTS.
| Joseph Addison. Harrison Ainsworth. Jane Austen. Francis, Lord Bacon. Joanna Baillie. Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield. Jeremy Bentham. Richard Bentley. James Boswell. Charlotte Brontë. Henry, Lord Brougham. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. John Bunyan. Edmund Burke. Robert Burns. Samuel Butler. George, Lord Byron. Thomas Campbell. Thomas Carlyle. Thomas Chatterton. Geoffrey Chaucer. Philip, Lord Chesterfield. William Cobbett. Hartley Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. William Collins. William Cowper George Crabbe. Daniel De Foe. Charles Dickens. Isaac D’Israeli. John Dryden. Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot). Henry Fielding. John Gay. Edward Gibbon. William Godwin. Oliver Goldsmith. David Gray. Thomas Gray. Henry Hallam. William Hazlitt. Felicia Hemans. James Hogg. Thomas Hood. Theodore Hook. David Hume. Leigh Hunt. Elizabeth Inchbald. Francis, Lord Jeffrey. Douglas Jerrold. Samuel Johnson. Ben Jonson. John Keats. John Keble. Charles Kingsley. Charles Lamb. Letitia Elizabeth Landon. |
Walter Savage Landor. Charles Lever. Matthew Gregory Lewis. John Gibson Lockhart. Sir Richard Lovelace. Edward, Lord Lytton. Thomas Babington Macaulay. William Maginn. Francis Mahony (Father Prout). Frederick Marryat. Harriet Martineau. Frederick Denison Maurice. John Milton. Mary Russell Mitford. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Thomas Moore. Hannah More. Sir Thomas More. Caroline Norton. Thomas Otway. Samuel Pepys. Alexander Pope. Bryan Waller Procter. Thomas de Quincey. Ann Radcliffe. Sir Walter Raleigh. Charles Reade. Samuel Richardson. Samuel Rogers. Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Richard Savage. Sir Walter Scott. William Shakespeare. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Sir Philip Sidney. Horace Smith. Sydney Smith. Tobias Smollett. Robert Southey. Edmund Spenser. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Sir Richard Steele. Laurence Sterne. Sir John Suckling. Jonathan Swift. William Makepeace Thackeray. James Thomson. Anthony Trollope. Edmund Waller. Horace Walpole. Izaac Walton. John Wilson. Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood). William Wordsworth. Sir Henry Wotton. |
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Footnotes:
[1] “Address to the Irish People.”
[2] Possibly this may refer to Count Schlaberndorf, an expatriated Prussian subject, who was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, and escaped, but subsequently returned, and lived there in retirement, almost in concealment. He was a cynic, an eccentric, yet a patriot withal. He was divorced from his wife, and Shelley had probably got hold of a wrong version of his story.
[3] Byron.
[4] Ibid.
Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;
Thy gentle words stir poison there;
Thou hast disturbed the only rest
That was the portion of despair!
Subdued to Duty’s hard control,
I could have borne my wayward lot:
The chains that bind this ruined soul
Had cankered then, but crushed it not.
[6] See his letter to Baxter, quoted before.
[7] Journal of a Six Weeks’ Tour.
[8] Journal of a Six Weeks’ Tour.
[9] Journal of a Six Weeks’ Tour.
[10] The bailiffs.
[11] She was staying temporarily at Skinner Street.
[12] Referring to Fanny’s letter, enclosed.
[13] Peacock’s mother.
[14] A friend of Harriet Shelley’s.
[15] It is presumed that these were for Clara, in answer to an advertisement for a situation as companion.
[16] Godwin’s friend and amanuensis.
[17] Which, unfortunately, may not be published.
[18] From this time Miss Clairmont is always mentioned as Clare, or Claire, except by the Godwins, who adhered to the original “Jane.”
[19] Byron.
[20] Word obliterated.
[21] Matthew Gregory Lewis, known as “Monk” Lewis.
[22] Hogg.
[23] Revolt of Islam, Dedication.
[24] Revolt of Islam, Dedication.
[25] The work referred to would seem to be Shelley’s Oxford pamphlet.
[26] Baxter’s son.
[27] Mr. Booth.
[28] What this accusation was does not appear.
[29] Alba.
[30] Shelley’s solicitor.
[31] The nursemaid.
[32] Mrs. Hunt.
[33] See Godwin’s letter to Baxter, chap. iii.
[34] Preface to Prometheus Unbound.
[35] Page 205.
[36] In Frankenstein.
[37] Notes to Shelley’s Poems, by Mrs. Shelley.
[38] Letter to Mr. Gisborne, of June 18, 1822.
[39] Letter of Shelley’s to Mr. Gisborne. (The passage, in the original, has no personal reference to Byron.)
[40] Announcing the stoppage of Shelley’s income.
[41] “The Boat on the Serchio.”
[42] Notes to Shelley’s Poems, by Mary Shelley.
[43] Godwin’s Answer to Malthus.
[44] This initial has been printed C. Mrs. Shelley’s letter leaves no doubt that Elise’s is the illness referred to.
[45] Trelawny’s “Recollections.”
[46] Williams’ journal for this last day runs—
February 18.—Jane unwell. S. turns physician. Called on Lord B., who talks of getting up Othello. Laid a wager with S. that Lord B. quits Italy before six months. Jane put on a Hindostanee dress and passed the evening with Mary, who had also the Turkish costume.
[47] Trelawny’s “Recollections.”
[48] Word illegible.
[49] Recounted at length in a subsequent letter, to be quoted later on.