“I was utterly mistaken. Indeed, it was not long before I discovered…” — Barry Cornwall

“I was utterly mistaken. Indeed, it was not long before I discovered that he had qualities which were superior to my own.”

A candid admission of prejudice corrected by acquaintance · Autobiographical fragment, Chapter III (published posthumously, 1877)

Barry Cornwall

About Barry Cornwall

21 November 1787–5 October 1874

Bryan Waller Procter, known to generations of readers by the literary name Barry Cornwall, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 21 November 1787, and died in London on 5 October 1874. He belonged to that broad, fascinating company of early nineteenth-century writers who stood close to the great Romantic generation without…

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