Thinly disguised as the papers of a dead man, this is Hazlitt’s record of his infatuation with Sarah Walker, his landlord’s daughter in London lodgings. Dialogues reconstructed from their meetings and letters written to friends while he waited in Scotland for his divorce trace jealousy, hope and humiliation with a frankness that scandalised readers in 1823.
A strange, raw book that anticipates the modern confessional memoir. Download the free EPUB.