Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)

p. iiOf the letters which are contained in the present volume, the first eighty-five were in the possession of the late Mr. George Bentley, who took great interest in their publication in The Temple Bar Magazine, and was in correspondence with the Editor until within a short time of his death. The remainder were placed in the Editors hands by Mrs. Kemble in 1883, and of these some were printed in whole or in part in FitzGeralds Letters and Literary Remains, which first appeared in 1889. The following letters, addressed by Edward FitzGerald to his life-long friend Fanny Kemble, form an almost continuous series, from the middle of 1871 to within three weeks of his death in 1883. They are printed as nearly as possible as he wrote them, preserving his peculiarities of punctuation and his use of capital letters, although in this he is not always consistent. In writing to me in 1873 he said, I love the old Capitals for Nouns. It has been a task of some difficulty to arrange the letters in their proper order, in consequence of many of them being either not dated at all or only imperfectly dated; but I hope I have succeeded in giving them, approximately at p. 2least, in their true sequence. The notes which are added are mainly for the purpose of explaining allusions, and among them will be found extracts from other letters in my possession which have not been published. The references to the printed Letters are to the separate edition in the Eversley Series, 2 vols. (Macmillans, 1894). ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 21434
Author: FitzGerald, Edward
Release Date: May 14, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Wright, William Aldis, 1831-1914