The librettist and theatre manager Alfred Bunn (17961860) published these memoirs of his career, giving a view both before and behind the curtain, in 1840. He professes not to be fond of autobiographies, is clearly irritated at the not always flat...Lasīt vairāk
The librettist and theatre manager Alfred Bunn (17961860) published these memoirs of his career, giving a view both before and behind the curtain, in 1840. He professes not to be fond of autobiographies, is clearly irritated at the not always flat...Lasīt vairāk
Alfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and provides a fascinating account of the period when Bunn was running both the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane and t...Lasīt vairāk
Alfred Bunn published these memoirs of his theatrical career in 1840. His account is written with a verve which makes it very readable, and provides a fascinating account of the period when Bunn was running both the Theatre Royal at Drury Lane and th...Lasīt vairāk
In the introduction to this 1833 work on the lives of distinguished northerns - including Andrew Marvell, Anne Clifford, Richard Arkwright, and James Cook - Hartley Coleridge makes a distinction between biography as part of public history and as p...Lasīt vairāk
In this light-hearted book, the classical scholar J. P. Mahaffy (18391919) analyses the art of conversation in the same way that a classical scholar would analyse the art of rhetoric, discussing theoretical models as well as taking examples from hi...Lasīt vairāk
This autobiography of the prominent Church of Scotland minister Alexander Carlyle (17221805) was eventually published in 1860, in an edition by the historian John Hill Burton (180981). Carlyle had left instructions to his executors to publish not o...Lasīt vairāk
The lawyer, politician and antiquarian John Selden (15841654) made his name as an expert on the ancient laws of England, though he was equally at home with classical and Judaic studies: Grotius described him as the glory of the English nation, and...Lasīt vairāk
The novels of Jane Austen (17751817) are of remarkable and enduring appeal; popular the world over, they are celebrated for their wit and social observation. This 1932 publication was compiled by George Latimer Apperson (18571937), an inspector of...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume edition of the letters of Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (17621831) and published in 180913. Volume 2 covers the period from 1741 to 1744, including her marriage to Edward Montagu in 1742, and th...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (17621831) and published in 180913. Volume 4 covers the period from 1755 to 1761, and ends with her description of the coronation of G...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (17621831) and published in 180913. Volume 3 covers the period from 1744 to 1755, during which she keeps her circle supplied with goss...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (17181800), the Queen of the Bluestockings, was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (17621831) and published in 180913. The daughter of wealthy parents, and well educated...Lasīt vairāk
This four-volume edition of the letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (17181800), the Queen of the Bluestockings, was edited by her nephew and adopted son Matthew (17621831) and published in 180913. The daughter of wealthy parents, and well educated...Lasīt vairāk
In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (17451826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives an incidental view of the progress...Lasīt vairāk
This eight-volume set, published 181758 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols Literary Anecdotes (181215), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we n...Lasīt vairāk
The reminiscences of Bristol bookseller Joseph Cottle (17701853) have been described as unreliable but essential. The son of a tailor, Cottle was an avid reader, opening a bookshop in 1791. Three years later he was introduced to Samuel Taylor Cole...Lasīt vairāk
These 1837 reminiscences of Bristol bookseller Joseph Cottle (17701853), publisher of the Lyrical Ballads in 1798, have been described as unreliable but essential. They contain evasions and distortions, but are valuable for their account of vital...Lasīt vairāk
