A happy half-century, and other essays
By: by Agnes Repplier.
Contributors: Repplier, Agnes, 1855-1950, inscriber.; Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Authors, English -- Biography; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Partly reprinted from various periodicals.
Deals mainly with English intellectual life during "the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth."
Table of contents: title: A happy half-century; title: The perils of immortality; title: When Lalla Rookh was young; title: The correspondent; title: The novelist; title: On the slopes of Parnassus; title: The literary lady; title: The child; title: The educator; title: The pietist; title: The accursed annual; title: Our accomplished great-grandmother; title: The album amicorum.