A New Kind of Heroine
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron”
by Lucasta Miller
June 6, 2019 issue
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Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley, Footsteps, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder, Falling Upwards, and, most recently, This Long Pursuit. (June 2019)
A New Kind of Heroine
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron”
by Lucasta Miller
June 6, 2019 issue
Luftmensch in Paris
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera
by Adam Begley
When I Was a Photographer
by Félix Nadar, translated from the French by Eduardo Cadava and Liana Theodoratou
May 24, 2018 issue
Out of Control
After two hundred years, how exactly are we to go back to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ itself, as distinct from its proliferating, multimedia myth?
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
by Mary Shelley, edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert
The New Annotated Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, edited and with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger
December 21, 2017 issue
De Quincey: So Original, So Truly Weird
He transformed his own pathological tragedy into something rich and strange.
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
by Frances Wilson
November 24, 2016 issue
The Greatness of William Blake
My Blake, the radical visionary poet of the 1960s, seems almost old-fashioned now.
Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame
by H.J. Jackson
Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
by Leo Damrosch
Poems
by William Blake, selected and introduced by Patti Smith
December 3, 2015 issue
John Keats Lives!
The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
by Denise Gigante
John Keats: A New Life
by Nicholas Roe
November 7, 2013 issue
‘Genius…Infected by Romance’
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance
an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, October 21, 2010–January 23, 2011, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, February 24–June 5, 2011
February 24, 2011 issue
The Great de Staël
Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman
by Francine du Plessix Gray
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
by J. Christopher Herold
Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
by Renee Winegarten
Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile
by Angelica Goodden
Corinne, or Italy
by Madame de Staël, translated from the French by Sylvia Raphael
May 28, 2009 issue
The Passionate Partnership
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
by Adam Sisman
April 12, 2007 issue
Triumph of an Artist
A Life of James Boswell
by Peter Martin
Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
by Adam Sisman
September 20, 2001 issue
Lost Tale of a Lost Child
Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot
by Mary Shelley, edited with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
April 22, 1999 issue
On the Enchanted Hill
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 1854–1890
edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography
by Frank McLynn
Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny
by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman
June 8, 1995 issue
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