Men, women, and books : a selection of sketches, essays, and critical memoirs, from his uncollected prose writings / by Leigh Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauty, Personal.

Women poets.

Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762.

Montagu, Mary Wortley.

Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696.

Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : portrait.

Manufacture:

(Stewart and Murray)

Place of Publication:

London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1847.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

v. 1. Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England

v. 2. Social morality. Pope. Garth, physicians, and love-letters. Cowley and Thomson. Bookstalls and "Galateo". Bookbinding and "Heliodorus". Ververt, or, The parrot of the nuns. Specimens of British poetesses. Duchess of St. Albans, and marriages from the state. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Life and African visit of Pepys. Life and letters of Madame de Sévigné.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the Smith College Library.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.