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| Author's Preface | |
| I. | The English Opium Eater: Thomas de Quincey: | |
| | 1.—The Man | 3 |
| | 2.—His Books | 11 |
| II. | A Pioneer of Political Reform: Harriet Martineau | 21 |
| III. | A Lover of Beauty: Gerald Massey | 29 |
| IV. | A Poet Engraver: William James Linton: | |
| | 1.—The Man | 37 |
| | 2.—His Books And His Art | 43 |
| V. | A Successful Novelist: Eliza Lynn Linton: | |
| | 1.—The Woman | 51 |
| | 2.—Her Books | 57 |
| VI. | The Philosopher of Brantwood: John Ruskin: | |
| | 1.—The Man | 65 |
| | 2.—His Art-Teaching and His Books | 75 |
| VII. | A Great Life Marred: Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 85 |
| VIII. | A Life to Pity: Hartley Coleridge | 95 |
| IX. | George the Fourth's Laureate: Robert Southey | 103 |
| X. | Victoria's First Laureate: William Wordsworth | 113 |
| XI. | A Friend of Great Poets: Charles Lloyd | 123 |
| XII. | 'Christopher North': John Wilson | 131 |
| XIII. | The Champion of Lord Bacon: James Spedding | 141 |
| XIV. | Two Beautiful Lives: William and Lucy | 149 |
| XV. | Two Broad Thinkers: Frederic and F. W. H. Meyer
(Father and Son) | 157 |
| XVI. | A Religious Medievalist: Frederick William Faber: | |
| | 1.—The Man | 167 |
| | 2.—His Books | 177 |
| XVII. | John Ruskin's Friends: The Sisters of the Thwaite,
and their Brother | 187 |
| XVIII. | A Learned Young Lady: Elizabeth Smith | 195 |
| XIX. | A Country Doctor and his Stories (Folk-Speech):
Dr. Alexander Craig Gibson | 203 |
| XX. | Two Pioneer Educationists: Thomas and
Matthew Arnold | 213 |
| XXI. | 'Drunken Barnaby': Richard Braithwaite | 223 |
| XXII. | Last Words about our Celebrities | 233 |
