Faber and Faber, London, 2022. Good secondhand condition.

June 1846. As London swelters - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glamorous coterie of writers and artists indulge in decadent parties. With her ringletted ?face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiancé, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy; Keats roams the Heath; Wordsworth visits the zoo; Dickens is intrigued by Tom Thumb; the Carlyles suffer a marital crisis. But when the visionary painter Benjamin Robert Haydon commits suicide, their lives begin to spiral around the tragedy...
One of the first group biographies, inspired by the Pop Artists, Althea Hayter?s glorious A Sultry Month was a groundbreaking feat of creative non-fiction in 1965 - and as radical today...