George Paston

George Paston
George Paston was the pen name of Emily Morse Symonds, an English writer and literary critic born in 1860. She is best known for her biographical works and for writing novels that explored the lives of women in Victorian society. Some of her notable works include "A Writer of Books" (1898) and "Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century" (1902), which shed light on women’s struggles for independence and recognition. Paston was also a significant literary figure for her editorial work on the letters and memoirs of prominent historical figures, blending both fiction and non-fiction in her career.

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It is an unromantic fact, but one which cannot fail to be of interest at the present time, that the remarkable development of the graver's art in England during the latter part of the eighteenth century was due, in a measure at least, to—Protection. In the middle of the century our trade in engravings was still an import one, English print-sellers being obliged to pay hard cash for the prints... more...

BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON PART I If it be true that the most important ingredient in the composition of the self-biographer is a spirit of childlike vanity, with a blend of unconscious egoism, few men have ever been better equipped than Haydon for the production of a successful autobiography. In naïve simplicity of temperament he has only been surpassed by Pepys, in fulness of self-revelation by... more...