Women of letters
By: by Gertrude Townshend Mayer.
Publisher: R. Bentley
Published: 1894
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain; Women authors, English -- Biography; Authors, English -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "The following papers, revised and reprinted--with, in some cases, considerable additions--from Temple bar (1887-1896) ... aim ... only to give some idea of the lives and characters of the women themselves, mainly in their own words, supplemented by the recollections of their contemporaries."--Pref. note.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle: "Lamb's Duchess." Mary, Countess Cowper. Lady Hervey: the home life of a court lady. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Mrs. Delany: "Queen Charlotte's friend." Mrs. Montagu: "The queen of the blue stockings". Lady Anne Barnard: the authoress of "Auld Robin Gray." Mary and Agnes Berry: Horace Walpole's twin "wives."; title: v. 2. Elizabeth Inchbald. Amelia Opie. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. Miss Mitford. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Lady Duff Gordon.