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Louise Guiney

A Little English Gallery

Name: A Little English Gallery
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: f91cc063-538e-9b99-d9bc-6a5f40489aa7-zh_tw-en
Price: 26.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Louise Guiney

Original publication: 1894
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 323
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Poetic
Translated from: English

Book summary

Five biographical studies of six people from old England, most of them little remembered: Magdalen Herbert, friend of the poet John Donne; the Welsh poet and physician Henry Vaughan; the writer of comedies George Farquhar; Topham Beauclerk and Bennet Langton, friends of Samuel Johnson; and the critic William Hazlitt. From 1561 to 1830, the author follows their families, friendships and works. Lively portraits, full of true detail about three centuries of English life.

The plot

Six lives from old England. A noblewoman, a poet, a writer of comedies, two friends of the writer Samuel Johnson and a critic.

The world of the book

Three centuries of England. Around 1600, great Welsh families send their sons to study at Oxford.

The author

A Boston poet who loved England. Born in Boston, she published her first poems at twenty-three, then ran a post office.

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Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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