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Barbara Hofland
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Mrs S.C. Hall : Sketches of Irish Character
'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland Print: Book
Mary Russell Mitford : Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town
'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland Print: Book
Fanny Kemble : unknown
'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with them. I am sure they are meritorious, let the critics say what they may.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland Print: Book
H. Tudor : unknown
'The best account I have read of America, as it now is, I have found in a book written by H. Tudor, Esq. (a townsman of my own whom I knew very well in his early life, some thirty years since). He is their warm admirer...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Barbara Hofland Print: Book
Willis : Melaine
'With Willis's Melaine, etc., I have been delighted, and indeed affected, more than with any poetry I ever read in my life. I wonder if he is the gentleman I met at Mr. Wilson's...'
