Word Portraits of Famous Writers
Mabel E. Wotton
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Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches, but "word portraits," shore vignettes of a persons physical appearance and elements of behavior or personality. These are all drawn from many sources -- biographies, newspapers, or personal friends of the authors. Some descriptions are based on paintings or drawings, but the majority are derived from personal acquaintance. Thus, we have a unique view of these famous artists that we seldom read. - Summary by Larry Wilson (7 hr 26 min)
Chapters
| Introduction | 6:04 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Joseph Addison | 4:48 | Read by Nemo |
| Harrison Ainsworth | 4:20 | Read by Nemo |
| Jane Austen | 3:43 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Francis, Lord Bacon | 2:45 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Joanna Baillie | 3:01 | Read by ADKreader |
| Benjamin, Lord Beaconsfield | 3:00 | Read by Sonia |
| Jeremy Bentham | 3:33 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Richard Bentley | 1:38 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| James Boswell | 3:29 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Charlotte Brontë | 4:30 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Henry, Lord Brougham | 8:57 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 2:30 | Read by Eva Davis |
| John Bunyan | 3:17 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Edmund Burke | 4:36 | Read by Steve C |
| Robert Burns | 6:43 | Read by Nemo |
| Samuel Butler | 1:12 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| George, Lord Byron | 3:53 | Read by Sonia |
| Thomas Campbell | 5:46 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| Thomas Carlyle | 4:10 | Read by Nemo |
| Thomas Chatterton | 2:48 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 3:21 | Read by Sonia |
| Philip, Lord Chesterfield | 3:52 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| William Cobbett | 5:03 | Read by Steve C |
| Hartley Coleridge | 5:06 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 4:01 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| William Collins | 2:03 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| William Cowper | 2:49 | Read by Nemo |
| George Crabbe | 3:18 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Daniel De Foe | 3:07 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Charles Dickens | 7:09 | Read by Nemo |
| Isaac D’Israeli | 3:41 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| John Dryden | 5:51 | Read by Steve C |
| Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot) | 4:53 | Read by April6090 |
| Henry Fielding | 3:11 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| John Gay | 3:07 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Edward Gibbon | 3:44 | Read by Adele Pooley |
| William Godwin | 3:11 | Read by Amy Gramour |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 2:31 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| David Gray | 2:38 | Read by ADKreader |
| Thomas Gray | 2:32 | Read by ADKreader |
| Henry Hallam | 2:20 | Read by ADKreader |
| William Hazlitt | 5:53 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Felicia Hemans | 3:15 | Read by April6090 |
| James Hogg | 3:58 | Read by Kay Sun |
| Thomas Hood | 6:03 | Read by Demosthenes |
| Theodore Hook | 3:06 | Read by Kay Sun |
| David Hume | 4:00 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Leigh Hunt | 4:21 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Elizabeth Inchbald | 2:08 | Read by ADKreader |
| Francis, Lord Jeffrey | 3:29 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Douglas Jerrold | 2:53 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Samuel Johnson | 3:41 | Read by Nemo |
| Ben Jonson | 3:21 | Read by Sonia |
| John Keats | 4:13 | Read by Eva Davis |
| John Keble | 5:48 | Read by ADKreader |
| Charles Kingsley | 5:21 | Read by Nemo |
| Charles Lamb | 5:19 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon | 3:20 | Read by ADKreader |
| Walter Savage Landor | 3:59 | Read by VfkaBT |
| Charles Lever | 2:07 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis | 2:36 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| John Gibson Lockhart | 1:20 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| Sir Richard Lovelace | 2:47 | Read by Devorah Allen |
| Edward, Lord Lytton | 4:01 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | 4:09 | Read by MaryAnn |
| William Maginn | 4:54 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Francis Mahony (Father Prout) | 5:16 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Frederick Marryat | 3:22 | Read by MaryAnn |
| Harriet Martineau | 2:48 | Read by ADKreader |
| Frederick Denison Maurice | 3:03 | Read by VfkaBT |
| John Milton | 4:09 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Mary Russell Mitford | 5:07 | Read by BettyB |
| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 3:12 | Read by ADKreader |
| Thomas Moore | 4:20 | Read by Nemo |
| Hannah More | 5:00 | Read by BettyB |
| Sir Thomas More | 3:05 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Caroline Norton | 4:41 | Read by BettyB |
| Thomas Otway | 2:18 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Samuel Pepys | 3:12 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Alexander Pope | 3:07 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Bryan Waller Procter | 2:48 | Read by ADKreader |
| Thomas de Quincey | 6:36 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Ann Radcliffe | 1:53 | Read by Sonia |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | 4:42 | Read by VfkaBT |
| Charles Reade | 3:44 | Read by Robert Robinson |
| Samuel Richardson | 4:05 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Samuel Rogers | 3:03 | Read by Nemo |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | 9:38 | Read by Emma Charlotte |
| Richard Savage | 2:36 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Sir Walter Scott | 4:54 | Read by Emma Charlotte |
| William Shakespeare | 9:10 | Read by Rosemarie DeSapio |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 2:42 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 5:36 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 2:47 | Read by VfkaBT |
| Sir Philip Sidney | 2:21 | Read by Sonia |
| Horace Smith | 2:01 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Sydney Smith | 3:19 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Tobias Smollett | 1:44 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Robert Southey | 5:18 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Edmund Spenser | 4:35 | Read by Steve C |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | 2:58 | Read by Sonia |
| Sir Richard Steele | 4:27 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Laurence Sterne | 3:03 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Sir John Suckling | 2:05 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| Jonathan Swift | 3:25 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| William Makepeace Thackeray | 3:25 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| James Thomson | 2:33 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Anthony Trollope | 4:15 | Read by Michael Fassio |
| Edmund Waller | 3:30 | Read by Sonia |
| Horace Walpole | 4:23 | Read by ADKreader |
| Izaac Walton | 1:57 | Read by Steve C |
| John Wilson | 5:39 | Read by ADKreader |
| Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) | 2:34 | Read by BettyB |
| William Wordsworth | 4:26 | Read by Eva Davis |
| Sir Henry Wotton | 3:06 | Read by Larry Wilson |