A Little English Gallery by Louise Imogen Guiney

Description

Louise Imogen Guiney called this little gallery “her best beloved volume” — a set of biographical essays written, as she confessed, purely out of delight in her subjects. She begins with the Lady Danvers about whom John Donne wrote; moves to Henry Vaughan, the physician-poet who retired to the banks of the Usk; and then to the comic playwright George Farquhar, who died young and regretting nothing.

The second half of the gallery is given to three men of the Johnsonian world: Topham Beauclerk, Bennet Langton, and William Hazlitt. Guiney’s method is not dry scholarship but vivid presence — she makes each figure walk into the room and speak. Original essays, first published in American magazines of the 1890s, that remain among the finest short literary biographies in English.

Why readers still come back to it

• Six full portraits of lesser-known but unforgettable English writers
• Personal, affectionate essays rather than stiff academic biography
• Vivid glimpses of the circles of Donne, Vaughan, and Dr. Johnson

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