["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Serial / periodical
'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by non-exercise it is certainly a faculty that deserts us, & you are too truly a poetess to be lost to literature even through great domestic happiness...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again... He puts Paul Ferroll very high indeed among modern novels, & the Poems, not only high but at the Top of modern poetry...Lord Lansdowne's opinion is of so much value, that I thought I ought to write...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne Print: Book
'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again... He puts Paul Ferroll very high indeed among modern novels, & the Poems, not only high but at the Top of modern poetry...Lord Lansdowne's opinion is of so much value, that I thought I ought to write...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Lansdowne Print: Book
