{"product_id":"diary-reminiscences-and-correspondence-paperback-9781108024884","title":"Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108024884","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDiary, Reminiscences and Correspondence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRobinson's diaries and letters provide an important source of information about all the leading cultural figures of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenry Crabb Robinson (Author), Thomas Sadler (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108024884, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e542 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHenry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was a lawyer, journalist and indefatigable diarist, who was acquainted with almost all the important figures in English and European cultural circles. His surviving writings amount to almost one hundred volumes, from which this selection was compiled in 1869. He studied at Jena where he became acquainted with Goethe and Schiller, and became foreign editor for The Times, despatching eyewitness reports on the Battle of Corunna. He travelled to Switzerland and Italy with Wordsworth, and his reminiscences of William Blake are an important source of information on that visionary. He attended Coleridge's public lectures, recording not only the content but anecdotes about the audiences. Other activities included helping found the Athenaeum Club and University College, London. The combination of anecdote and critical appraisal of the notables about whom he writes makes the diaries a valuable source for the culture of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. 1789. Family and childhood\u003cbr\u003e 2. 1790–5. Articled clerk at Colchester\u003cbr\u003e 3. 1795. Interval at Bury\u003cbr\u003e 4. 1796–9. Unsettled life in London - correspondence with Robert Hall\u003cbr\u003e 5-9. 1800–5. In Germany\u003cbr\u003e 10. 1805–6. In London - acquaintance with Mrs. Barbauld, and C. and M. Lamb\u003cbr\u003e 11. 1807. In Holstein, as Times correspondent\u003cbr\u003e 12. 1807–9. In London, as foreign editor of the Times - acquaintance with Wordsworth - at Corunna, as Times correspondent\u003cbr\u003e 13. 1810. In London - acquaintance with Coleridge and Flaxman\u003cbr\u003e 14. 1811. In London - debating societies - Coleridge's lectures - Southey - resolution to study for the Bar\u003cbr\u003e 15. 1812. In London - studies for the Bar - lectures by Coleridge and Hazlitt\u003cbr\u003e 16. 1813. Acquaintance with Talfourd - Madame de Staël in London - circuit - takes chambers\u003cbr\u003e 17. 1814. European politics - practice at the Bar - tour in France - La Fayette - French courts of justice - Madame de Staël - Benjamin Constant - Schlegel - 'The Excursion'\u003cbr\u003e 18. 'The Excursion' - Buonaparte's escape from Elba - death of H. C. R.'s father - tour in Belgium and Holland - visit to Waterloo - progress at the Bar.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265966231832,"sku":"9781108024884","price":38.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108024884i_d21e9775-ada4-48d4-9260-bd588992d1c5.jpg?v=1694869819","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/diary-reminiscences-and-correspondence-paperback-9781108024884","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}