Landmarks of a Literary Life 1820-1892

Klappentext The detailed autobiography! first published in 1893! of prolific writer Camilla Crosland (1812 1895)! providing a retrospect of Victorian society. Zusammenfassung Camilla Crosland (1812–1895) was a British author whose literary career spanned sixty years of the nineteenth century. This volume, first published in 1893, contains Crosland's detailed autobiography, in which she describes her life chronologically, providing a fascinating retrospect of early Victorian society and literary development in the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Hearsay and childish recollections; 2. Hearsay and childish recollections continued; 3. Coronation of George the Fourth; 4. Mrs. Davison and her son, the future musical critic of the Times; 5. The British Legion in Spain; 6. The brothers Chambers; 7. The annuals and the Countess of Blessington; 8. The 'forties' continued; 9. Lough the sculptor; 10. Mrs. Somerville Wood; 11. Mrs. Loudon; 12. American friends and acquaintances; 13. A triad of single women; 14. A serious chapter; 15. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence; 16. R. H. Horne; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Camilla Crosland
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9781108021944
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02194-4
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers