James T. Fields, the Boston publisher behind many of America’s leading writers, recalls the authors he knew as friends. He describes coaxing a despondent Hawthorne to part with The Scarlet Letter, visiting Dickens at Gad’s Hill, and his meetings with Thackeray, Wordsworth, Mary Russell Mitford and Barry Cornwall, with many of their letters quoted along the way.
Warm, gossipy and full of first-hand detail, a treat for lovers of Victorian literature. Download the free EPUB.