From Sketch-book and Diary

by Elizabeth Thompson Butler

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302 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1909

About the author

Elizabeth Southerden (Thompson) Butler, best known as Lady Butler

Prominent Victorian artist (Queen Victoria was among her patrons) and author of several non-fiction books including an autobiography. Daughter of Thomas James Thompson and Christiana (Weller) Thompson and sister of the poet Alice Christiana Gertrude (Thompson) Meynell. The family were converts to Catholicism. She married the Irish-Catholic, British Army officer and explorer Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Butler, GCB, FRGS who was also a widely published author.