Women of Letters
Women of Letters
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "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 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."--v. 2. Elizabeth Inchbald. Amelia Opie. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. Miss Mitford. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Lady Duff Gordon
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