title: The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 (Oxford Handbooks)
author:  Andrew Hadfield 
description: <br />"This volume presents a landmark contribution to our understanding of early modern prose and its multitude of themes, subjects and authors." --<em>Journal of the Northern Renaissance</em>
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  # Yesterdays with Authors
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James T. Fields
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  INTRODUCTORY.
  
  
  I. INTRODUCTORY.
  
  
  II. THACKERAY.
  
  
  III. HAWTHORNE.
  
  
  IV. DICKENS.
  
  
  V. WORDSWORTH.
  
  
  VI. MISS MITFORD.
  
  
  VII. “BARRY CORNWALL” AND SOME OF HIS FRIENDS.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Keren Vergon, David Cortesi and
  
  
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  YESTERDAYS WITH AUTHORS
  
  
  By
  
  
  JAMES T. FIELDS.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Was it not yesterday we spoke together?”—SHAKESPEARE
  
  
  Seventeenth Edition
  
  
  BOSTON:
  
  
  HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY
  
  
  The Riverside Press, Cambridge
  
  
  1879
  
  
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  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
  
  
  BY JAMES T. FIELDS, in the Office of the Librarian
  
  
  of Congress, at Washington
  
  
  
  
  
  University Press: Welch, Bigelow, &Co., Cambridge.
  
  
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  INSCRIBED
  
  
  TO MY FELLOW-MEMBERS OF
  
  
  THE SATURDAY CLUB.
  
  
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  Preface to the Project Gutenberg Edition.
  
  
  James Fields