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Word Portraits of Famous Writers

by Mabel E. WOTTON (1863 - 1927)

John Bunyan

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

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Alexander Pope , Ann Radcliffe , Anthony Trollope , Arthur Penrhyn Stanley , Ben Jonson , Bryan Waller Procter , Caroline Norton , Charles Dickens , Charles Kingsley , Charles Lamb , Charles Lever , Charles Reade , Daniel De Foe , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , David Gray , David Hume , Douglas Jerrold , Edmund Burke , Edmund Spenser , Edmund Waller , Edward Gibbon , Edward, Lord Lytton , Elizabeth Inchbald , Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) , Felicia Hemans , Francis, Lord Jeffrey , Francis Mahony (Father Prout) , Frederick Denison Maurice , Frederick Marryat , Geoffrey Chaucer , George Crabbe , George, Lord Byron , Hannah More , Harriet Martineau , Hartley Coleridge , Henry Fielding , Henry Hallam , Horace Smith , Horace Walpole , Isaac D’Israeli , Izaac Walton , James Hogg , James Thomson , John Dryden , John Gay , John Gibson Lockhart , John Keats , John Keble , John Milton , John Wilson , Jonathan Swift , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Laurence Sterne , Leigh Hunt , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) , Mary Russell Mitford , Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Matthew Gregory Lewis , Oliver Goldsmith , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Philip, Lord Chesterfield , Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Richard Savage , Robert Burns , Robert Southey , Samuel Butler , Samuel Johnson , Samuel Pepys , Samuel Richardson , Samuel Rogers , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Sir Henry Wotton , Sir John Suckling , Sir Philip Sidney , Sir Richard Lovelace , Sir Richard Steele , Sir Thomas More , Sir Walter Raleigh , Sir Walter Scott , Sydney Smith , Theodore Hook , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Thomas Campbell , Thomas Carlyle , Thomas Chatterton , Thomas de Quincey , Thomas Gray , Thomas Hood , Thomas Moore , Thomas Otway , Tobias Smollett , Walter Savage Landor , William Cobbett , William Collins , William Cowper , William Godwin , William Hazlitt , William Maginn , William Makepeace Thackeray , William Shakespeare , William Wordsworth