Word Portraits of Famous Writers
Mabel E. Wotton
116 chapters · 7 h 26 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Nemo, Kathleen Moore, ADKreader, Sonia, Phil Schempf and others
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Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches, but "word portraits," shore vignettes of a persons physical appearance and elements of behavior or personality. These are all drawn from many sources -- biographies, newspapers, or personal friends of the authors. Some descriptions are based on paintings or drawings, but the majority are derived from personal acquaintance. Thus, we have a unique view of these famous artists that we seldom read. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Introduction 6 min 2 Joseph Addison 5 min 3 Harrison Ainsworth 4 min 4 Jane Austen 4 min 5 Francis, Lord Bacon 3 min 6 Joanna Baillie 3 min 7 Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield 3 min 8 Jeremy Bentham 4 min 9 Richard Bentley 2 min 10 James Boswell 3 min 11 Charlotte Brontë 4 min 12 Henry, Lord Brougham 9 min 13 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2 min 14 John Bunyan 3 min 15 Edmund Burke 5 min 16 Robert Burns 7 min 17 Samuel Butler 1 min 18 George, Lord Byron 4 min 19 Thomas Campbell 6 min 20 Thomas Carlyle 4 min 21 Thomas Chatterton 3 min 22 Geoffrey Chaucer 3 min 23 Philip, Lord Chesterfield 4 min 24 William Cobbett 5 min 25 Hartley Coleridge 5 min 26 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4 min 27 William Collins 2 min 28 William Cowper 3 min 29 George Crabbe 3 min 30 Daniel De Foe 3 min 31 Charles Dickens 7 min 32 Isaac D'Israeli 4 min 33 John Dryden 6 min 34 Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) 5 min 35 Henry Fielding 3 min 36 John Gay 3 min 37 Edward Gibbon 4 min 38 William Godwin 3 min 39 Oliver Goldsmith 3 min 40 David Gray 3 min 41 Thomas Gray 3 min 42 Henry Hallam 2 min 43 William Hazlitt 6 min 44 Felicia Hemans 3 min 45 James Hogg 4 min 46 Thomas Hood 6 min 47 Theodore Hook 3 min 48 David Hume 4 min 49 Leigh Hunt 4 min 50 Elizabeth Inchbald 2 min 51 Francis, Lord Jeffrey 3 min 52 Douglas Jerrold 3 min 53 Samuel Johnson 4 min 54 Ben Jonson 3 min 55 John Keats 4 min 56 John Keble 6 min 57 Charles Kingsley 5 min 58 Charles Lamb 5 min 59 Letitia Elizabeth Landon 3 min 60 Walter Savage Landor 4 min 61 Charles Lever 2 min 62 Matthew Gregory Lewis 3 min 63 John Gibson Lockhart 1 min 64 Sir Richard Lovelace 3 min 65 Edward, Lord Lytton 4 min 66 Thomas Babington Macaulay 4 min 67 William Maginn 5 min 68 Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 5 min 69 Frederick Marryat 3 min 70 Harriet Martineau 3 min 71 Frederick Denison Maurice 3 min 72 John Milton 4 min 73 Mary Russell Mitford 5 min 74 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 3 min 75 Thomas Moore 4 min 76 Hannah More 5 min 77 Sir Thomas More 3 min 78 Caroline Norton 5 min 79 Thomas Otway 2 min 80 Samuel Pepys 3 min 81 Alexander Pope 3 min 82 Bryan Waller Procter 3 min 83 Thomas de Quincey 7 min 84 Ann Radcliffe 2 min 85 Sir Walter Raleigh 5 min 86 Charles Reade 4 min 87 Samuel Richardson 4 min 88 Samuel Rogers 3 min 89 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 10 min 90 Richard Savage 3 min 91 Sir Walter Scott 5 min 92 William Shakespeare 9 min 93 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3 min 94 Percy Bysshe Shelley 6 min 95 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 3 min 96 Sir Philip Sidney 2 min 97 Horace Smith 2 min 98 Sydney Smith 3 min 99 Tobias Smollett 2 min 100 Robert Southey 5 min 101 Edmund Spenser 5 min 102 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 3 min 103 Sir Richard Steele 4 min 104 Laurence Sterne 3 min 105 Sir John Suckling 2 min 106 Jonathan Swift 3 min 107 William Makepeace Thackeray 3 min 108 James Thomson 3 min 109 Anthony Trollope 4 min 110 Edmund Waller 4 min 111 Horace Walpole 4 min 112 Izaac Walton 2 min 113 John Wilson 6 min 114 Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) 3 min 115 William Wordsworth 4 min 116 Sir Henry Wotton 3 min
