A woman's memories of world-known men / by Mrs. Houstoun ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houstoun, (Matilda Charlotte), 1815?-1892.

Contributor:

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

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