Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon
. The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...
EHD
considered William Heinemann
, her publisher, as also a close personal friend.
Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson.
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She once attended a party in St John's Wood at the house of Karl Blind
(stepfather of the poet...
Travel
Geraldine Jewsbury
While in Paris, she visited Louis Blanc
's tailoring workshop, Blanqui's Club
, and saw the christening of the Second Republic (which had been declared on 24 February) on 4 May from the Tuileries Gardens...