George Somes Layard

By many accounts KG was a shy, unassuming woman. She was plain in appearance, and disliked being in the public eye. According to Spielmann and Layard 's biography, she was also very shy in general...

Eliza's interest in politics began when she was very young. Her biographer George Somes Layard writes that the first seeds of her early republicanism were sown in Eliza's mind by Daniel O'Connell 's appearances at...

KG composed and carefully preserved a large amount of unpublished writing, and some of her verse is reprinted in Spielmann and Layard 's biography of her: Four thick volumes of neatly written manuscript running to...

A new edition of the book was published in 2011 by the Victorian Secrets press. It contains a critical apparatus by editors, Deborah T. Meem and Kate Holterhoff plus contemporary reviews, excerpts from George Layard