ABSTRACT
In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|16 pages
‘Sir Walter Scott’, from The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits (London, 1825)
part 2|6 pages
‘Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott’ (1832), in The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie (London, 1851)
part 3|21 pages
Memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., with Critical Notices of his Writings, Compiled from Various Authentic Sources (Dundee, 1832)
part 4|35 pages
The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott (Glasgow, 1834)
part 5|44 pages
Fragments of Voyages and Travels, Third Series, vol. 3, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1834)
part 6|40 pages
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (London, 1835)
part 7|27 pages
Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (London, 1837)
part 8|11 pages
Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, 3 vols (London, 1851)
part 9|63 pages
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1837–8)
part 10|10 pages
Review of Lockhart’s Biography of Scott, London and Westminster Review XXVIII (1838)
part 11|6 pages
Diary Illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, Interspersed with Original Letters from the late Queen Caroline, and from Various Other Distinguished Persons, 4 vols., vols. III and IV ed. John Galt (London, 1838–9)
part 12|10 pages
Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian, by Mrs [Anne Jackson] Mathews, 4 vols (London, 1838–9)
part 13|10 pages
‘A Graybeards Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance’, No. 12, New Monthly Magazine LXXXII (1848)
part 14|10 pages
Memorials of His Time (Edinburgh, 1856)
part 15|8 pages
The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist: Edited, from Materials Supplied by his Widow, by Robert Buchanan, 2nd edn (London, 1869)
part 16|11 pages
Life of Sir Walter Scott; with Abbotsford Notanda by Robert Carruthers, ed. W. Chambers (Edinburgh, 1871)
part 17|17 pages
‘Abbotsford Notanda’, which includes extracts from William Laidlaw, Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (in Robert Chambers, Life of Sir Walter Scott, 1871)
part 18|9 pages
‘Recollections of Visits to Ashistiel and Abbotsford’, Temple Bar XL (1874)
part 19|18 pages
Life and Letters, ed. Augustus J. C. Hare (London, 1894)