Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches, but "word portraits," shore vignettes of a persons physical appearance and elements of behavior or personality. These are all drawn from many sources -- biographies, newspapers, or personal friends of the authors. Some descriptions are based on paintings or drawings, but the majority are derived from personal acquaintance. Thus, we have a unique view of these famous artists that we seldom read. ( Larry Wilson)
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Essays & Short Works
Keywords that describe the book: literature, history, essay, biography, author, poet
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"from Temple Bar, 1874, asterisk." "from a personal friend." END of recording
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I think I should have posted a note to hold off on claims until the MW is set up. This doubles my work because I have to look up all of the section numbers to get the claims entered. Late night, several weather related challenges also set me back today, but I'll do my best. Good to have the sections claimed, though. Just be patient.
Larry, after the MW is set up, I'll go back and edit my post to include the section numbers so you don't have to look them up ... don't want to create extra work for you!
Nemo
Nemo
Thoreau - “Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Kitty wrote:all right, Larry, you got your work cut out for you to populate the MW.
May I claim some sections for myself already please ?
GEORGE, LORD BYRON
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
ANN RADCLIFFE
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
thank you
Sonia
Thank you so much for picking this up, Sonia.
I've got the MW done, and will work on assigning the claims.
I've put you in for your choice.
There are also several sections that have paragraphs in French that you might consider taking on for us. They are marked in the MW.
silverquill wrote:There are also several sections that have paragraphs in French that you might consider taking on for us. They are marked in the MW.
oh, I didn't check it so much in detail, I only took some authors I found interesting. But yes, you can assign me to the sections containing French as well They are all fairly short, so I can manage a few more.
So we are talking about these four, right:
6 Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield
53 Ben Jonson
101 Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
109 Edmund Waller
Sonia
I will be on vacation from Wednesday 27 March till Sunday 14 April
and unable to PL during that time. Thank you for your patience.
just another technical question: are we also reading the footnotes ? There are only 6 in total, but I have half of them in Chaucer, to explain some words.
Sonia
I will be on vacation from Wednesday 27 March till Sunday 14 April
and unable to PL during that time. Thank you for your patience.