Reviews for The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh

The average rating for The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-11 00:00:00 Danial Michael I bought this to read after I'd finished all of the novels by Dickens, and while it took me a long while to finish, that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. In his 'Uncommercial Traveller' persona, Dickens is a reporter, a satirist, an essayist, an observer -- my favorite being the satirist, as I love his sarcasm. The editors have done a superb job in their annotations and discoveries.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-03-11 00:00:00 Albert Baur Excellent, engaging essays by Stevenson about a variety of Scottish, French, American, and Japanese writers / figures (as well as Samuel Pepys--the one Englishman to slip by). The ones about French medieval writers Charles of Orleans and Francois Villon are especially good, as are the ones on Hugo, Whitman, and Pepys. One might not always agree with Stevenson's neglect of the works for the men or, alternatively, his conclusions about these writers, but the essays provide a fascinating glimpse of how Stevenson negotiates literary history. Most of these essays started as periodical articles from the 1870s and 1880s in journals such as the Cornhill, and the entire collection was published in 1882. Note that I did not read the edition I have marked here. The first English edition of Familiar Studies is available on Google Books and archive.org for free. That's where i read it.