Letters from England, 1846-1849

By Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis

Book Id: WPLBN0002952841
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File Size: 90.12 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Letters from England, 1846-1849
Author:	Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Travel
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Letters from England, 1846-1849
Historic Publication Date:	1904
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Davis Bancroft, B. E. (1904). Letters from England, 1846-1849. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest circles. In his wife's letters to their sons, her uncle, her brother, and Mrs. Polk (the President's wife), we see glimpses not only of early Victorian English life, but also of Queen Victoria herself! Mrs. Bancroft speaks of dinners with Benjamin Disraeli, visits to Wordsworth, weekends in the country with Louis Napolean and Sir Robert Peel with such matter of fact aplomb that one cannot help being impressed.

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Travel