ABSTRACT

First published in 2009, this is a collection of carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these key nineteenth-century figures were viewed by their contemporaries. Volume 1 covers John Stuart Mill.

chapter I|13 pages

Anne Romilly

chapter II|5 pages

Thomas Moore

chapter III|32 pages

James Lorimer

chapter IV|7 pages

W. D. Christie

chapter V|7 pages

George Fitzhugh

chapter VI|6 pages

William White

chapter VII|12 pages

Westminster Review

chapter VIII|54 pages

Lord Dufferin

chapter IX|23 pages

Frances Power Cobbe

chapter X|33 pages

Margaret Oliphant

chapter XI|18 pages

Bonamy Price

chapter XII|4 pages

Abraham Hayward

chapter XIII|8 pages

W. T. Thornton

chapter XV|10 pages

John Morley

chapter XVI|23 pages

Herbert Cowell

chapter XVII|43 pages

Henry Reeve

chapter XVIII|24 pages

Frederic Harrison

chapter XIX|15 pages

Charles W. Dilke

chapter XX|26 pages

George Jacob Holyoake

chapter XXI|3 pages

Thomas Hardy