Recollections of Literary Characters and Celebrated Places

Mrs. Thomson

Published by Richard Bentley, London, 1854

About this Item

About this item: Katherine Thomson (1797-1862), was an English writer, known as a novelist and historian. She was the seventh daughter of Thomas Byerley of Etruria, Staffordshire, a nephew by marriage and sometime partner and manager of the pottery works of Josiah Wedgwood. She married in 1820, the physician Anthony Todd Thomson. During their residence in London, she and her husband assembled an artistic and literary circle, some of their more notable friends that they saw much of were Thackeray, Robert Browning and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became a close friend. At her husband's suggestion, Thomson began biographical compilation, and then developed anecdotal biography, as used by Isaac D'Israeli, John Heneage Jesse, and Agnes Strickland. It gave her material for a series of historical novels. After her husband's death in 1849 she lived abroad for some years where she wrote and compiled material for this work. The material in these volumes are chapters of anecdotal topography which appeared originally in "Bentley's Miscellany" and "Fraser's magazine" under the signature "A Middle-aged Man." Description: Complete in two volumes. 611 total pp. (317 pp. vol. i, 294 pp. vol. ii.). First edition. Period brown half calf and marble boards, gilt tooled spine, gilt upper leaf edge, Morocco lettering. Measures: 7 15/16" x 5 1/8" x 1" each volume. Condition: Near fine; light edge wear, chipped front crown hinge corner (vol. i), tight and square spines, clean slight age-toned text pages. An attractive set.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recollections of Literary Characters and Celebrated Places
• Publisher: Richard Bentley, London
• Publication Date: 1854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket