Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence - Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondenc

Klappentext Robinson's diaries and letters provide an important source of information about all the leading cultural figures of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was a lawyer and journalist who was acquainted with all the significant literary and cultural figures of his day. His lifelong habit of keeping diaries, letters and memoirs, from which this 1869 compilation derives, provides a major source of biographical information about his friends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. 1789. Family and childhood; 2. 1790-5. Articled clerk at Colchester; 3. 1795. Interval at Bury; 4. 1796-9. Unsettled life in London - correspondence with Robert Hall; 5-9. 1800-5. In Germany; 10. 1805-6. In London - acquaintance with Mrs. Barbauld, and C. and M. Lamb; 11. 1807. In Holstein, as Times correspondent; 12. 1807-9. In London, as foreign editor of the Times - acquaintance with Wordsworth - at Corunna, as Times correspondent; 13. 1810. In London - acquaintance with Coleridge and Flaxman; 14. 1811. In London - debating societies - Coleridge's lectures - Southey - resolution to study for the Bar; 15. 1812. In London - studies for the Bar - lectures by Coleridge and Hazlitt; 16. 1813. Acquaintance with Talfourd - Madame de Staël in London - circuit - takes chambers; 17. 1814. European politics - practice at the Bar - tour in France - La Fayette - French courts of justice - Madame de Staël - Benjamin Constant - Schlegel - 'The Excursion'; 18. 'The Excursion' - Buonaparte's escape from Elba - death of H. C. R.'s father - tour in Belgium and Holland - visit to Waterloo - progress at the Bar.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Crabb Robinson, Robinson Henry Crabb
• Assisted by: Thomas Sadler (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9781108024884
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02488-4
• No. of pages: 542
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies; Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence 3 Volume Paperback Set
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Diaries, letters and journals