A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Costello, Louisa Stuart
COSTELLO, LOUISA STUART,
Is an industrious and agreeable writer. Her first work, "Specimens of the Early Poetry of France," shewed research and taste bestowed on a subject which rarely interests any one save a native of Paris. Her next book was a pleasant one—"Summer among the Boccages and the Vines." "She also wrote "A Pilgrimage to Auvergne," "The Queen Mother," and other works. But her most important work is "Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen;" published in 1844, in four volumes, with a number of well-executed portraits. There are, in all, thirty-seven biographies given, including England's proudest names. Mrs. Costello evidently put her heart in this work; it is purely English in its sentiments and turns of thought. Several other works have appeared from the same gifted pen; the last being a poem entitled "The Lay of the Stork," and bearing date 1856.