Becoming a 19th Century Writer: The Life and Career of Louisa Stuart Costello – Clare Broome Saunders,

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1870) was a popular and critically acclaimed poet, novelist, travel writer, historian, biographer, artist, and medieval scholar. Clare Broome Saunders will explore how Costello’s long career offers a rich source of information about the working life of a professional writer in the nineteenth century; how Costello’s interactions with friends and supporters, such as Scott and Dickens, and her manipulations of literary markets, enabled her to disseminate her academic medieval scholarship in commercially and critically successful outputs, and how she skilfully used genre to express her strongly-held political views.
This event is free of charge and open to all. It will be followed by a drinks reception to launch Clare Broome Saunders’ new book, Louisa Stuart Costello: A Nineteenth-Century Writing Life.