The Letters of Sara Hutchinson from 1800 to 1835
Hutchinson, Sara edited by Kathleen Coburn
| Publication Date | 1954 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Routledge & Kegan Paul |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good, sound, ex-library copy |
| SKU | 26612 |
| Notes | Red boards with gilt titles to spine uneven colour loss to spine and boards. There is a shiny patch to the tail of the spine where a label was. Small number of stamps and pencil numbering internally. A tear about 2 inches long to the hinge / margin of the fold-out pedigree. Text is clean. An sound ex library copy. |
Description
Hardback. 474pp. Sara Hutchinson was the sister of William Wordsworth's wife Mary, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Asra. Her letters give an insight to life in the Lake District in the early nighteenth century as well as the lives and work of the Wordsworths, the Coleridges, the Southeys, the Lambs and the rest of their circle. With introductory essay, annotated list of persons and places referred to in the letters, foldout family trees for the Monkhouse, Wordsworth and Hutchinson families.
