 We must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose." — Morning Post. " Miss Strickland...  Owen Tudor: An Historical Romance - Seite 315von Emma Robinson - 1849Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Annie Forbes Bush - 1843 - 424 Seiten
..." These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history."— Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 Seiten
...of England,' and especially for her Memoir of Mary of Modena. In this instance Miss Strickland bos made a very judicious use of many authentic MS. authorities...interesting addition to our biographical library. r It is Kiid by those acquainted with the Cambridge Collections, that the noble editor of Pepys took... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1848 - 472 Seiten
..." These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1848 - 524 Seiten
...PRESS. " These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. "Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 446 Seiten
..." These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | Thomas Birch, Robert Folkestone Williams - 1848 - 526 Seiten
..." These volumes bare the fascination of a romance uuited to the integrity of history." — Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | Anne Mary Louisa (duchess of Montpensier.) - 1848 - 322 Seiten
..." These volumes tare the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 436 Seiten
...These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Misi Strickland has made a very judicious use of many authentic...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1848 - 712 Seiten
...wildness of romance, will constitute a valuable addition to our biographical literature — Morning Herald Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...to our biographical library.— Quarterly Review. Volumes of the Duodecimo edition still for sale separately, to complete sets. LEA & BLANCHARD'S PUBLICATIONS.... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1848 - 376 Seiten
...volume* hare the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Ali-is Strickland has made a very judicious use of many authentic...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
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