| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
x, 221 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
[Part I. Of writing and writers] -- In the orchard -- A woman's college from outside -- On a faithful friend -- English prose -- Impressions at Bayreuth -- Modes and manners of the nineteenth century -- Men and women -- Coleridge as critic -- Patmore's criticism -- Papers on Pepys -- Sheridan -- Thomas Hood -- Praeterita -- Mr. Kipling's notebook -- Emerson's journals -- Thoreau -- Herman Melville -- Rupert Brooke -- The intellectual imagination -- These are the plans -- Mr. Sassoon's poems -- A Russian schoolboy -- A glance at Turgenev -- A giant with very small thumbs -- Dostoevsky the father -- More Dostoevsky -- Dostoevsky in Cranford -- The Russian background -- A scribbling dame -- Maria Edgeworth and her circle -- Jane Austen and the geese -- Mrs. Gaskell -- The compromise -- Wilcoxiana -- The genius of Boswell -- Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener -- Literary geography -- Flumina Amem Silvasque -- Haworth, November 1904 -- [Part II. Mainly portraits] -- The girlhood of Queen Elizabeth -- The diary of a lady in waithing -- Queen Adelaide -- Elizabeth Lady Holland -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt -- Lady Strachey -- John Delane -- Body and brain. |
| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1978
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| ISBN |
0151134782 |
|
9780151134786 |
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