A Sultry Month Hayter Alethea
A Sultry Month Hayter Alethea Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though…
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A Sultry Month Hayter Alethea
Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo ...June 1846. With her ringletted 'face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fianc, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams the Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles suffer a marital crisis. As London swelters - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glamorous coterie of writers and artists indulge in decadent parties.
But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, their lives begin to