12175-1 Books About Books Hickey writes an entertaining and

Hickey writes an entertaining and vividly detailed memoir that covers his youthful debaucheries in London and his subsequent travels to Calcutta

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12175-1 Books About Books Hickey writes an entertaining andTicknor [1866 1937] was the granddaughter and daughter of publishers who had close relationships with many authors. This book is an autobiographical account of her interest and explorations into these authors so well known to members of her family. She shares information on, among others, Dickens, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James, the Coleridge family, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Interesting to Austen fans, she includes a