Barbara Baker
Discourses: Biological and Geological
Discourses by Thomas Henry Huxley presents a collection of engaging lectures that delve into the realms of biology and geology. As a promine…
The English Language
A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …
The Novels of Jane Austen
An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)
This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…
Hieroglyphic Tales
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…
Italian Hours
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend
Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…
The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2)
This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been a…
The Letters of Madame de Sévigné to Her Daughter and Friends
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (5 February 1626 – 17 April 1696) was a French aristocrat famous for the precisi…
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…
Mrs. Piozzi's Thraliana
"It is many years since Dr. Samuel Johnson advised me to get a little book, and write in it all the Anecdotes which might come to my kn…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1
Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…
Reminiscences and Table-Talk of Samuel Rogers - Banker, Poet and Patron of the Arts (1763-1855)
Samuel Rogers was a renowned conversationalist who associated with the most distinguished persons of his time. This volume contains fascinat…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 2
The diaries give a lively and accurate account of the author's experiences in the literary and courtly worlds of Georgian England. Summary b…
Lapérouse
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker