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Word Portraits of Famous Writers

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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 (7 hr 26 min)

Chapters

Introduction

6:04

Read by Larry Wilson

Joseph Addison

4:48

Read by Nemo

Harrison Ainsworth

4:20

Read by Nemo

Jane Austen

3:43

Read by Kathleen Moore

Francis, Lord Bacon

2:45

Read by Kathleen Moore

Joanna Baillie

3:01

Read by ADKreader

Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield

3:00

Read by Sonia

Jeremy Bentham

3:33

Read by Phil Schempf

Richard Bentley

1:38

Read by Michael Fassio

James Boswell

3:29

Read by Kathleen Moore

Charlotte Brontë

4:30

Read by Tomas Peter

Henry, Lord Brougham

8:57

Read by Adele Pooley

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2:30

Read by Eva Davis

John Bunyan

3:17

Read by Larry Wilson

Edmund Burke

4:36

Read by Steve C

Robert Burns

6:43

Read by Nemo

Samuel Butler

1:12

Read by Adele Pooley

George, Lord Byron

3:53

Read by Sonia

Thomas Campbell

5:46

Read by Adele Pooley

Thomas Carlyle

4:10

Read by Nemo

Thomas Chatterton

2:48

Read by Michael Fassio

Geoffrey Chaucer

3:21

Read by Sonia

Philip, Lord Chesterfield

3:52

Read by Adele Pooley

William Cobbett

5:03

Read by Steve C

Hartley Coleridge

5:06

Read by Adele Pooley

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4:01

Read by Michael Fassio

William Collins

2:03

Read by Phil Schempf

William Cowper

2:49

Read by Nemo

George Crabbe

3:18

Read by Phil Schempf

Daniel De Foe

3:07

Read by Michael Fassio

Charles Dickens

7:09

Read by Nemo

Isaac D’Israeli

3:41

Read by Adele Pooley

John Dryden

5:51

Read by Steve C

Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot)

4:53

Read by April6090

Henry Fielding

3:11

Read by Tomas Peter

John Gay

3:07

Read by Tomas Peter

Edward Gibbon

3:44

Read by Adele Pooley

William Godwin

3:11

Read by Amy Gramour

Oliver Goldsmith

2:31

Read by Michael Fassio

David Gray

2:38

Read by ADKreader

Thomas Gray

2:32

Read by ADKreader

Henry Hallam

2:20

Read by ADKreader

William Hazlitt

5:53

Read by Eva Davis

Felicia Hemans

3:15

Read by April6090

James Hogg

3:58

Read by Kay Sun

Thomas Hood

6:03

Read by Demosthenes

Theodore Hook

3:06

Read by Kay Sun

David Hume

4:00

Read by Michael Fassio

Leigh Hunt

4:21

Read by Eva Davis

Elizabeth Inchbald

2:08

Read by ADKreader

Francis, Lord Jeffrey

3:29

Read by Devorah Allen

Douglas Jerrold

2:53

Read by Devorah Allen

Samuel Johnson

3:41

Read by Nemo

Ben Jonson

3:21

Read by Sonia

John Keats

4:13

Read by Eva Davis

John Keble

5:48

Read by ADKreader

Charles Kingsley

5:21

Read by Nemo

Charles Lamb

5:19

Read by Eva Davis

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

3:20

Read by ADKreader

Walter Savage Landor

3:59

Read by VfkaBT

Charles Lever

2:07

Read by Devorah Allen

Matthew Gregory Lewis

2:36

Read by Tomas Peter

John Gibson Lockhart

1:20

Read by Robert Robinson

Sir Richard Lovelace

2:47

Read by Devorah Allen

Edward, Lord Lytton

4:01

Read by Michael Fassio

Thomas Babington Macaulay

4:09

Read by MaryAnn

William Maginn

4:54

Read by MaryAnn

Francis Mahony (Father Prout)

5:16

Read by MaryAnn

Frederick Marryat

3:22

Read by MaryAnn

Harriet Martineau

2:48

Read by ADKreader

Frederick Denison Maurice

3:03

Read by VfkaBT

John Milton

4:09

Read by Michael Fassio

Mary Russell Mitford

5:07

Read by BettyB

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

3:12

Read by ADKreader

Thomas Moore

4:20

Read by Nemo

Hannah More

5:00

Read by BettyB

Sir Thomas More

3:05

Read by Larry Wilson

Caroline Norton

4:41

Read by BettyB

Thomas Otway

2:18

Read by Greg Giordano

Samuel Pepys

3:12

Read by Greg Giordano

Alexander Pope

3:07

Read by Michael Fassio

Bryan Waller Procter

2:48

Read by ADKreader

Thomas de Quincey

6:36

Read by Greg Giordano

Ann Radcliffe

1:53

Read by Sonia

Sir Walter Raleigh

4:42

Read by VfkaBT

Charles Reade

3:44

Read by Robert Robinson

Samuel Richardson

4:05

Read by Tomas Peter

Samuel Rogers

3:03

Read by Nemo

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

9:38

Read by Emma Charlotte

Richard Savage

2:36

Read by Michael Fassio

Sir Walter Scott

4:54

Read by Emma Charlotte

William Shakespeare

9:10

Read by Rosemarie DeSapio

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

2:42

Read by Tomas Peter

Percy Bysshe Shelley

5:36

Read by Eva Davis

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

2:47

Read by VfkaBT

Sir Philip Sidney

2:21

Read by Sonia

Horace Smith

2:01

Read by Greg Giordano

Sydney Smith

3:19

Read by Greg Giordano

Tobias Smollett

1:44

Read by Tomas Peter

Robert Southey

5:18

Read by Greg Giordano

Edmund Spenser

4:35

Read by Steve C

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

2:58

Read by Sonia

Sir Richard Steele

4:27

Read by Greg Giordano

Laurence Sterne

3:03

Read by Tomas Peter

Sir John Suckling

2:05

Read by Greg Giordano

Jonathan Swift

3:25

Read by Michael Fassio

William Makepeace Thackeray

3:25

Read by Michael Fassio

James Thomson

2:33

Read by Michael Fassio

Anthony Trollope

4:15

Read by Michael Fassio

Edmund Waller

3:30

Read by Sonia

Horace Walpole

4:23

Read by ADKreader

Izaac Walton

1:57

Read by Steve C

John Wilson

5:39

Read by ADKreader

Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood)

2:34

Read by BettyB

William Wordsworth

4:26

Read by Eva Davis

Sir Henry Wotton

3:06

Read by Larry Wilson