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THE FRIENDSHIPS OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD: As Recorded in Letters from her Literary Correspondents. Edited by the Rev. A. G. L’Estrange, Editor of “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford,” and Author of “The Life of the Rev. W. Harness,” &c. 2 vols. crown 8vo. 21s.
Among other persons whose letters are recorded in these volumes are:—Lady Dacre, The Duke of Devonshire, Lord St. Germans, Lord Holland, Sir William Elford, Dean Milman, Rev. A. Dyce, Mrs. Trollope, Mrs. Hofland, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Jameson, Mrs. Opie, Mrs. Clive, Mrs. Hemans, Miss Edgeworth, Miss Strickland, Miss Martineau, Miss Barrett, Miss de Quincey, Miss Jephson, Miss Porden, Miss Sedgwick, Joanna Baillie, William Cobbett, Macready, Kemble, Douglas Jerrold, Walter Savage Landor, Eliot Warburton, Barry Cornwall, John Ruskin, Tom Taylor, Serjeant Talfourd, Crabbe Robinson, Charles Young, Digby Starkey, Bayard Taylor, George Darley, George Ticknor, N. P. Willis, the Howitts, &c.
“Few collections of miscellaneous letters are so well worth reading as these. The ideas of the writers are so various and the styles so different, that it is impossible to grow weary of them. Entirely apart from their connection with Miss Mitford, there is much to please and much to be learnt from the book. Everyone will find some favourite author or poet among the correspondents, and therefore find it worth their while to read at least some of the letters included in the present volumes. Mr. L’Estrange has performed his task with care, and it has evidently been a labour of love.”—Morning Post.
“To have been a friend of Mary Russell Mitford is, paraphrasing the language of Steele, a liberal education. As a correspondent, Miss Mitford was hardly inferior to Cowper, her faculty being derived from her mother, whose letters are admirable specimens of easy, confidential, sympathetic communication. These letters are all written as to one whom the writers love and revere. Miss Barrett is one of Miss Mitford’s correspondents, all of whom seem to be inspired with a sense of excellence in the mind they are invoking. Their letters are extremely interesting, and they strike out recollections, opinions, criticisms, which will hold the reader’s delighted and serious attention.”—Daily Telegraph.
“In this singular and probably unique book Miss Mitford is painted, not in letters of her own nor in letters written of her, but in letters addressed to her; and a true idea is thus conveyed of her talent, her disposition, and of the impression she made upon her friends. It seldom happens that anyone, however distinguished, receives such a number of letters well worth reading as were addressed to Miss Mitford; and the letters from her correspondents are not only from interesting persons, but are in themselves interesting.”—St. James’s Gazette.