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Updated: May 22, 2025
To descend to the third, or even the lower second class in fiction is almost more dangerous here than a similar laxity in any other department; and we can no more admit Lord John Russell because he wrote a story called The Nun of Arrouca, than we can exhume any equally forgotten production of writers less known in non-literary respects.
He wrote his now forgotten novel, 'The Nun of Arrouca, during the six weeks which he spent in Paris. A Frenchman, visiting the poet, 'lamented that his friend Lord John showed to so little advantage in society from his extreme taciturnity, and still more from his apparent coldness and indifference to what is said by others.
Lord John also edited the 'Correspondence of John, fourth Duke of Bedford, and prefaced the letters with a biographical sketch. Quite early in his career he also tried his hand at fiction in 'The Nun of Arrouca, a story founded on a romantic incident which occurred during his travels in the Peninsula.
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