Drawn from Amelia Opie’s letters, diaries and manuscripts, this memoir follows her from girlhood in Norwich through her marriage to the painter John Opie, her success as a novelist and poet in London society, and her later life as a Quaker devoted to schools, committees and charity, with glimpses of the many famous people she knew.
A rich record of a literary life spanning the 1780s to the 1850s. Download the free EPUB.