Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters of the Late Lucy Aikin - Including Those Addressed to the Rev. Dr Channing From 1826 to 1842

An 1864 memoir of the writer Lucy Aikin (1781-1864), with a miscellany of her entertaining essays and letters.

List of contents

Memoir of Miss Aikin; Memoir of Miss Benger; Recollections of Joanna Baillie; 'Old Times'; How character is formed; On the spirit of aristocracy; Example and precept; Envy and pity; Sorrow and anger; Doubt; Motives; Frankness; Tempters; Popular fallacies; Words upon words; Letters.

Summary

This 1864 work, edited by her niece's husband, contains a memoir of the writer Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), a collection of her essays and 'dialogues', and letters to family and friends in which she expresses frequently humorous and often trenchant opinions on the literary and social topics of the day.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Aikin, P. H. Le Breton
• Assisted by: P. H. Le Breton (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781108074704
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07470-4
• No. of pages: 474
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Prose: non-fiction, English, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Biography and non-fiction prose, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs