{"product_id":"recollections-of-a-literary-life-3-volume-set-or-books-places-and-people-9781108020602","title":"Recollections of a Literary Life 3 Volume Set; Or, Books, Places, and People (Multiple-component retail product) 9781108020602","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRecollections of a Literary Life 3 Volume Set\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOr, Books, Places, and People\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDelightfully detailed and surprisingly witty, this 1852 publication offers an eclectic mix of fiction, literary analysis and autobiography.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary Russell Mitford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108020602, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMultiple-component retail product, published 23 September 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e955 pages\u003cbr\u003e32.2 x 25.2 x 7 cm, 1.6 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\"\u003eBetter known for her five volume portrait of English rural life, Our Village, Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) was one of the most prolific female writers of her day. Part critical essay, part autobiography, Recollections consists of a series of sketches on and selections from Mitford's favourite authors, stemming from her desire 'to make others relish a few favourite writers as heartily as I have relished them myself'. The collection is arranged according to Mitford's own eclectic system of categorization including 'fashionable poets', 'cavalier poets', and 'poetry that poets love'. Mitford wears her immense literary skill lightly and Recollections is masterfully written, full of lively wit and fascinating biographical detail. Published just three years before Mitford's death, it was based on earlier articles and letters. Authors included range from Chaucer to Sir Walter Scott and Mitford's friend Elizabeth Barrett Browning.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eVolume 1: Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Various authors - Percy's Reliques\u003cbr\u003e 2. Irish authors - Thomas Davis, John Banim\u003cbr\u003e 3. Authors associated with places - Thomas Noel\u003cbr\u003e 4. Old authors - Abraham Cowley\u003cbr\u003e 5. Comic poets - J. Anstey\u003cbr\u003e 6. American poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\u003cbr\u003e 7. Authors sprung from the people - Thomas Holcroft\u003cbr\u003e 8. Authors associated with places - Beaumont and Fletcher\u003cbr\u003e 9. Fashionable poets - Winthrop Macworth Praed\u003cbr\u003e 10. Peasant poets - John Clare\u003cbr\u003e 11. Authors associated with places - Samuel Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 12. Old poets - Robert Herrick, George Withers\u003cbr\u003e 13. Female poets - Joanna Baillie, Catherine Fanshawe\u003cbr\u003e 14. Married poets - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning\u003cbr\u003e 15. Prose pastorals - Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia, Isaac Walton's Complete Angler. Volume 2: 1. Spanish ballads\u003cbr\u003e 2. Female poets - Miss Blamire, Mrs. James Gray\u003cbr\u003e 3. American orators - Daniel Webster\u003cbr\u003e 4. Old authors - Ben Jonson\u003cbr\u003e 5. Fashionable poets - William Robert Spencer\u003cbr\u003e 6. Autobiography of dramatic authors - Colley Cibber, Richard Cumberland\u003cbr\u003e 7. Female poets - Mrs. Clive, Mrs. Acton Tindal, Miss Day, Mrs. Robert Dering\u003cbr\u003e 8. Cavalier poets - Richard Lovelace, Roger l'Estrange, The Marquis of Montrose\u003cbr\u003e 9. Poetry that poets love - Walter Savage Landor, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats\u003cbr\u003e 10. Authors associated with places - Christopher Anstey\u003cbr\u003e 11. American poets - John Greenleaf Whittier, Fitz-Greene Halleck\u003cbr\u003e 12. Voluminous authors - Hargrave's State Trials\u003cbr\u003e 13. Fishing songs - Mr. Doubleday, Miss Corbett\u003cbr\u003e 14. Authors associated with places - John Kenyon. Volume 3: 1. Authors associated with places - Thomas Chatterton, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth\u003cbr\u003e 2. American poets - Oliver Wendell Holmes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Letters of authors - Samuel Richardson\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fine single poems - Sir Walter Scott, \u0026amp;c.\u003cbr\u003e 5. Authors associated with places - W. C. Bennett\u003cbr\u003e 6. Irish authors - Gerald Griffin\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mock-heroic poetry - John Hookham Frere\u003cbr\u003e 8. Authors associated with places - Lord Clarendon, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Hughes\u003cbr\u003e 9. Unrecognised poets - George Darley, the Rev. Edward William Barnard\u003cbr\u003e 10. American prose writers - Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003e 11. Old poets - Andrew Marvel\u003cbr\u003e 11. Scottish poets - William Motherwell\u003cbr\u003e 13. Great prose writers - Lord Bacon, John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, John Ruskin.\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":46265951879448,"sku":"9781108020602","price":76.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108020602i_35919f55-f96e-494e-96c1-3151275516e6.jpg?v=1694869598","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/recollections-of-a-literary-life-3-volume-set-or-books-places-and-people-9781108020602","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}