Lady John Russell: A Memoir with Selections from Her Diaries and Correspondence
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Chapters (58)
- LADY JOHN RUSSELL A MEMOIR
- WITH SELECTIONS FROM HER DIARIES AND CORRESPONDENCE
- EDITED BY DESMOND MACCARTHY AND AGATHA RUSSELL
- WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS, OF WHICH SIX ARE IN COLOUR
- SECOND EDITION
- First Published ... November 3rd 1910 Second Edition ... December 1910
- LADY JOHN RUSSELL AND HER ELDEST SON From a miniature by Thorburn, 1844.
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LADY JOHN RUSSELL
- CHAPTER I
- 1815-34
- CHAPTER II
- 1835-41
- CHAPTER III
- 1841
- A BORDER BALLAD
- REMONSTRANCE
- CHAPTER IV
- 1841-45
- CHAPTER V
- 1846
- CHAPTER VI
- 1847-52
- PEMBROKE LODGE
- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- 1852-55
- CHAPTER VIII
- 1855
- CHAPTER IX
- 1855-60
- CHAPTER X
- 1859-66
- CHAPTER XI
- 1866-70
- CHAPTER XII
- 1870-78
- CHAPTER XIII
- 1878-98
- CHAPTER XIV
- RECOLLECTIONS OF FRANCES, COUNTESS RUSSELL
- APPENDIX
- MEMORIAL ADDRESS BY FREDERIC HARRISON
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- MINTO HOUSE, ROXBURGHSHIRE From a photograph
- THE COUNTESS OF MINTO, MOTHER OF LADY JOHN RUSSELL From a miniature by Sir William Ross. 1851
- LORD JOHN RUSSELL From a portrait by G. F. Watts. 1852
- PEMBROKE LODGE, EAST SIDE. FROM THE PARK From a water-colour drawing by W. C. Rainbow. 1883
- PEMBROKE LODGE. FROM THE SOUTH LAWN From a photograph by Frida Jones. 1902
- LADY JOHN RUSSELL AND HER DAUGHTER From a water-colour drawing by Mary Severn. 1854
- WILD HYACINTHS, PEMBROKE LODGE. From a water-colour drawing by Fred Dixey. 1899
- VIEW FROM THE WEST WALK, PEMBROKE LODGE From an oil painting by Samuel Helstead. 1896
- THE DOWAGER COUNTESS RUSSELL From a photograph. 1884
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z
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