“george paston”

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

Emily Morse Symonds (? -1936) was a British author who wrote under the pseudonym George (D. ) Paston. Her works include: A Writer of Books (1898), Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (1901), Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), The Naked Truth (with William Babington Maxwell) (1910)... More

After the Christmas vacation of 1805, Haydon began to attend the Academy classes, where he struck up a close friendship with John Jackson, afterwards a popular portrait-painter and Royal Academician, but then a student like himself. Jackson was the son of a village tailor in Yorkshire, and the prote... More