The Journal's of Caroline Fox

Résumé du livre

Caroline Fox's Journals may be placed high among Victorian memoirs. As a distinguished Cornish Quaker - the family wealth came from a shipping business based at Falmouth - she mixed with writers, thinkers, artists, scientists, inventors, explorers, divines and politicians. She began her Journal when still in her teens, and over some thirty-five years she enjoyed and recorded conversations with a succession of brilliant Victorians - Mill and Carlyle, Wordsworth, Hartley Coleridge, Tennyson, Elizabeth Fry, Holman Hunt, and the Polar explorers Belcher and Ross among them. This volume also includes some of her fascinating letters.