Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 203

 

Author

E. S. L. (Elizabeth Susan Law), 1799-1883

Title

Views in London / by an amateur ; sketched from a window in the "Palais de la verité" ; and Extracts from an album ; Not published

Imprint

[Chiswick : s.n.], 1833 (Chiswick : Chiswick Press : Charles Whittingham).

Call Number

WPRP 203

Physical Description:

63 p. ; 19 cm

Notes

Dedication to Sophia, Countess of Darlington. Bound together with Miscellaneous Poems dedicated to Lord Colchester by Elizabeth Susan Law, WPRP 203; Bound together with The Lady "Arabella Stuart" : a poem by Elizabeth Susan Law, WPRP 203b ; Giustina, A Spanish Tale of Real Life. by Elizabeth Susan Law, WPRP 203c; Poems dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. by Elizabeth Susan Law, WPRP 203d.

Epigraph

none

Content
Views in London, etc.  
The Descent of Venus in Kensington Gardens 1
Anticipation; or, Coming out 15
Disappointment; or, The Last Almack's 19
Maternal Remonstrances at the Close of the London Season 27
Belinda's Lamentations at the Close of the London Season 34
Extracts from an Album
A Lady's Answer to a Poet's Addresses 41
Advice to a Young Lady on her Birthday, from her Maiden Aunt, Miss Griselda Singleheart 44
Writing in an Album 48
Answer to "Pope's Characters of Women" 51
A Receipt for Walter Scott's Novels 55
Prudery 58
Cupid and Hymen 60
Julia 62
Love Matches 63
The Magic of a Name 64
Epigram on John Bourne, Toll-keeper of the Gate in the Vicinity of the Norfolk Arms, Balcombe 66