Produced by Brenda Lewis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries). HOME LIFE OF GREAT AUTHORS. HOME LIFE OF GREAT AUTHORS BY HATTIE TYNG GRISWOLD SEVENTH EDITION CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1902 COPYRIGHT BY A. C. MCCLURG AND CO. A.D. 1886. [Illustration] PREFACE. The author of these sketches desires to say that they were written, not for the special student of literary biography, who is already familiar with the facts here given, but rather for those busy people who have little time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private life and personal history of their favorite authors. The sketches are not intended to be critical, or to present anything like complete biographies. They are devoted chiefly to the home life of the various authors,--which, though an instructive and fascinating study, seems commonly neglected in popular biographies. It should be added that a few of these sketches have already appeared in print, but they have been rewritten to adapt them to their present purpose. H. T. G. COLUMBUS, WIS., October, 1886. [Illustration] [Illustration] CONTENTS. PAGE GOETHE 9 ROBERT BURNS 24 MADAME DE STAËL 34 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 43 THOMAS DE QUINCEY 54 WALTER SCOTT 64 CHARLES LAMB 75 CHRISTOPHER NORTH 85 LORD BYRON 94 SHELLEY 102 WASHINGTON IRVING 112 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 122 RALPH WALDO EMERSON 133 THOMAS CARLYLE 142 VICTOR HUGO 150 GEORGE SAND 164 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 177 EDWARD BULWER LYTTON 188 ALFRED TENNYSON 197 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 207 HENRY W. LONGFELLOW 220 JOHN G. WHITTIER 238 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES 251 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 262 ROBERT AND ELIZABETH BROWNING 274