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Title: The cabinet of Irish literature; selections from the works of the chief poet, orators, and prose writers of Ireland
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Read, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1841-1878 Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power), 1848-1929
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Publisher: London : The Gresham Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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r Journal ofConversations with Lord Byron was published,and became one of the most popular books ofthe day. The Repealers next appeared, fol-lowed by The Victims of Society, The TwoFriends, Meredith, and The Governess. Thelast has been pronounced by some critics asamong the best of the authoi-s works. Thencame The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman,deemed liy The Athenceum the best of LadyBlessingtons fictions, and containing incidentsuflacient for several ordinary three-volumenovels. The elderly gentleman has been inlove six times, and relates his story so franklyand truthfully that the reader experiences agenuine fellow-feeling for the narrator. Coun-try Quarters, Marmadnl:e Herbert, and TheConfessions of an Elderly Lady followed inquick succession. The last was intended af;a companion to Confessions of an ElderlyGentleman, and in 1853 they were issued inone volume as Confessions of an Elderly Ladyand Gentleman. By some critics the ladysconfessions are considered superior to those-
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MARGUERITE, COUNTESS OF BLESSINGTON After a Drauiug by A. E. CHALON COUNTESS OF BLESSING TON. 139^^ of the gentleman, and a reviewer in TheMorning Post gives the following estimateof their value:—A more perfect moral ana-tomization of the female heart has seldom beenexhibited in any work of tiction. The seriouspassages are agreeably relieved by some amus-ing sketches of the aristocracy of bygonetimes. The Idler in Italy and The Idler inFrance, published from 1839-41, were wellreceived and universally praised by the critics.In the latter Lady Blessington introduces toher i-eaders the leading representatives of art,literature, politics, and ton, whom she hasreceived as friends or met in society. Theanecdotes with which the work abounds aretold with a charming fi^ankness and piquancy.She afterwards wrote Desultory Thoughts andReiiections, a collection of terse and well-digested aphorisms of great moral vjilue; TheBelle of the Season, Tour through the Nether-lands to Paris, StratJiren,

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