The Life Of Mary Russell Mitford: Told By Herself In Letters To Her Friends V1

By Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange

Book Overview

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends V1 is a biographical book written by A.G. L'Estrange. The book is about the life of Mary Russell Mitford, a British author, playwright, and poet, who lived from 1787 to 1855. The book is based on Mitford's own letters to her friends, which she wrote throughout her life. The letters provide a unique insight into Mitford's personal life, her struggles as a writer, and her relationships with her family and friends. The book covers Mitford's childhood, her early literary successes, her later struggles with poverty and ill health, and her eventual death. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford, as well as the literary and social history of nineteenth-century Britain.In Two Volumes. She Is Rather An Essayist Than A Novelist, Her One Regular Novel, Atherton (1854), A Slight Tale Of Love And A Missing Legatee, Being Of Small Account. Her Voluminous Gossipy Letters (Which Better Deserve The Designation Recollections Of A Literary Life Than The Anthology Of Chosen Passages And Comments To Which She Gave That Title In 1852) Reveal Some Significant Preferences; Such As Those For Cowley, Lamb, Hazlitt, Gilbert White Of Selborne, The Simpler Part Of Wordsworth, Steele (Whom She Thought Worth Twenty Addisons) And Geoffrey Crayon, Whose Sketch Book Appeared In 1820. Her Fame Is Established By Our Village, Begun In The Lady�������s Magazine (1819).This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1428633324
• ISBN13: 9781428633322
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"