HMC
was still reading and commenting on others' works into her old age. She read and remarked on Hester Piozzi
, Charlotte Smith
, Edward Gibbon
, Erasmus Darwin
's The Loves of the Plants...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Alice Meynell
In the course of her evaluation of Ruskin AM
dismissed Gibbon
as having done more than any other to disorganise the English language.
qtd. in
Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947.
