Holmes profiled a series of 19th century literary heroes — Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley and Gérard de Nerval. Footsteps was about them, but also a biography of a biographer. It ...
Charlotte was not alone. Other great writers of the century who found themselves for any length of time in Brussels liked to look down their noses at the city. Gérard de Nerval, regarding the Senne – ...