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.

chapter

Introduction

part 1|16 pages

‘Sir Walter Scott’, from The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits (London, 1825)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

chapter |12 pages

Sir Walter Scott.

part 2|6 pages

‘Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott’ (1832), in The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie (London, 1851)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

chapter |3 pages

Miscellaneous Poetry

Written Since The Year 1790.

part 3|21 pages

Memoir of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., with Critical Notices of his Writings, Compiled from Various Authentic Sources (Dundee, 1832)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 4|35 pages

The Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott (Glasgow, 1834)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

part 5|44 pages

Fragments of Voyages and Travels, Third Series, vol. 3, 2nd edn (Edinburgh, 1834)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 6|40 pages

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (London, 1835)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 7|27 pages

Recollections of Sir Walter Scott (London, 1837)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 8|11 pages

Memoirs of a Literary Veteran, 3 vols (London, 1851)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 9|63 pages

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1837–8)

chapter |4 pages

Overview

part 10|10 pages

Review of Lockhart’s Biography of Scott, London and Westminster Review XXVIII (1838)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

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)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 12|10 pages

Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian, by Mrs [Anne Jackson] Mathews, 4 vols (London, 1838–9)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 13|10 pages

‘A Graybeards Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance’, No. 12, New Monthly Magazine LXXXII (1848)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 14|10 pages

Memorials of His Time (Edinburgh, 1856)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

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)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

part 16|11 pages

Life of Sir Walter Scott; with Abbotsford Notanda by Robert Carruthers, ed. W. Chambers (Edinburgh, 1871)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |9 pages

Personal Appearance.

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)

chapter |3 pages

Overview

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)

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |16 pages

Edgeworth: Life and Letters