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100 1 _aWotton, Mabel E.
_q(Mabel Emily),
_d1863-1927
245 1 0 _aWord Portraits of Famous Writers
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2017-12-11
505 0 _aJoseph Addison -- Harrison Ainsworth -- Jane Austen -- Francis, Lord Bacon -- Joanna Baillie -- Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield -- Jeremy Bentham -- Richard Bentley -- James Boswell -- Charlotte Brontë -- Henry, Lord Brougham -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- John Bunyan -- Edmund Burke -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- George, Lord Byron -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Carlyle -- Thomas Chatterton -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Philip, Lord Chesterfield -- William Cobbett -- Hartley Coleridge -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Collins -- William Cowper -- George Crabbe -- Daniel De Foe -- Charles Dickens -- Isaac D’Israeli -- John Dryden -- Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) -- Henry Fielding -- John Gay -- Edward Gibbon -- William Godwin -- Oliver Goldsmith -- David Gray -- Thomas Gray -- Henry Hallam -- William Hazlitt -- Felicia Hemans -- James Hogg -- Thomas Hood -- Theodore Hook -- David Hume -- Leigh Hunt -- Elizabeth Inchbald -- Francis, Lord Jeffrey -- Douglas Jerrold -- Samuel Johnson -- Ben Jonson -- John Keats -- John Keble -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lamb -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon -- Walter Savage Landor -- Charles Lever -- Matthew Gregory Lewis -- John Gibson Lockhart -- Sir Richard Lovelace -- Edward, Lord Lytton -- Thomas Babington Macaulay -- William Maginn -- Francis Mahony (Father Prout) -- Frederick Marryat -- Harriet Martineau -- Frederick Denison Maurice -- John Milton -- Mary Russell Mitford -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- Thomas Moore -- Hannah More -- Sir Thomas More -- Caroline Norton -- Thomas Otway -- Samuel Pepys -- Alexander Pope -- Bryan Waller Procter -- Thomas de Quincey -- Ann Radcliffe -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Charles Reade -- Samuel Richardson -- Samuel Rogers -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Richard Savage -- Sir Walter Scott -- William Shakespeare -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Horace Smith -- Sydney Smith -- Tobias Smollett -- Robert Southey -- Edmund Spenser -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -- Sir Richard Steele -- Laurence Sterne -- Sir John Suckling -- Jonathan Swift -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- James Thomson -- Anthony Trollope -- Edmund Waller -- Horace Walpole -- Izaac Walton -- John Wilson -- Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) -- William Wordsworth -- Sir Henry Wotton.
508 _aE-text prepared by David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
520 _a"Word Portraits of Famous Writers" by Mabel E. Wotton is a collection of biographical sketches written in the late 19th century. The work presents a series of personal descriptions of prominent British authors from Geoffrey Chaucer to contemporary figures, emphasizing their physical appearance, mannerisms, and unique traits as observed by their peers. This compilation aims to give literary enthusiasts a deeper appreciation for the individual personalities behind the iconic works and styles associated with these writers. The opening of the collection introduces the reader to the intent behind the portraits, asserting that literature lovers possess a natural curiosity about the lives and complexities of the men and women behind the texts they cherish. Wotton emphasizes the importance of personal details to create a vivid image of each author, noting that many descriptions are based on contemporaneous accounts or notable artistic portrayals. Each subsequent entry promises a rich tapestry of insights into how these literary giants presented themselves to the world, blending both admiration and critique to paint a more nuanced picture of their personas. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aAuthors, English -- Biography
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56166
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