Biographical sketches of figures who illustrate the literary and artistic life of the early nineteenth century. The subjects include the travelling Prince Pückler-Muskau, the Irish novelist Lady Morgan, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, the American writer N. P. Willis, the desert recluse Lady Hester Stanhope, and William and Mary Howitt.
Lively 1902 portraits drawing on letters and memoirs, for lovers of Regency and early Victorian society. Download the free EPUB.