A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846
Alethea Hayter (1911-2006) read modern history at Oxford, and after a period writing forCountry Lifeshe joined the British Council, retiring in 1971. Her many books includeElizabeth Barrett Browning(1962),The Wreck of the Abergavenny(2002) and the acclaimedOpium and the Romantic Imagination(1968). She was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.