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A woman's memories of world-known men / by Mrs. Houstoun ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1883 Houstou
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houstoun, (Matilda Charlotte), 1815?-1892.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 309 p. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- 3d ed., rev. & corr.
- Place of Publication:
- London : F. V. White, 1883. (Edinburgh : Colston and Son, Printers)
- Contents:
- Reminiscences of John Wilson Crocker
- Of Mr. Walter Bearwood
- And of Sir William Webb Follett
- The Duke of Clarence's kindness to his friends
- Mrs. Norton
- Sir Thomas Lawrence
- The Late Lord Derby
- Sir Francis Chantrey
- The Duke of Wellington
- Lady Duncannon's fete
- James Smith
- The Sheridans
- Sir Hope Grant
- Mr. Mitford
- Charlotte Smith
- Mrs. Dorset
- The Shelley family
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Rogers
- Henry Hallam
- Mrs. Trollope
- Theodore Hook
- Thomas Moore
- Edward Jesse
- President Sam Houston
- The Reverend J. Mitford
- Lord Dalling
- Mrs. Opie
- T. Colley Grattan
- J. Heneage Jesse
- Lord Cranbourne
- Louis Napoleon
- A. Dumas
- Ex-empress Eugénie
- Right honourable Sidney Herbert
- Sir Charles Trevelyan
- Last words regarding Killery Bay
- Field-marshall Lord Seaton
- The late Lord Strangford
- Professor Darwin
- Miss Cushman
- Abbe Liszt
- Mrs. Archer Clive
- Blumenthal
- Madame Ristori
- Mr. Munro of Novar
- Theodore Gudin
- Lord Nelson
- Lady Hamilton
- Sir Francis Bourgeois
- Mr. Harrison Ainsworth
- Wilton Abbey
- Chilmark Church
- The De Jessés of Languedoc.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Inscribed at head of title: "Recd March 8, 1884."
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 9331699
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