Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamicy years in European hstory. As Ambassador to England from the United States, George moved in the highest circles. In his wife’s letters to their sons, her uncle, her brother, and Mrs. Polk (the President’s wife), we see glimpses not only of early Victorian English life, but also of Queen Victoria herself! Mrs. Bancroft speaks of dinners with Benjamin Disraeli, visits to Wordsworth, weekends in the country with Louis Napolean and Sir Robert Peel with such matter of fact aplomb that one cannot help being impressed.

Latest episodes of the podcast Letters from England, 1846-1849 by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft

• 01 – Letter 01
• 02 – Letter 02
• 03 – Letter 03
• 04 – Letter 04
• 05 – Letter 05
• 06 – Letter 06
• 07 – Letter 07
• 08 – Letter 08
• 09 – Letter 09
• 10 – Letter 10
• 11 – Letter 11
• 12 – Letter 12
• 13 – Letter 13
• 14 – Letter 14
• 15 – Letter 15
• 16 – Letter 16
• 17 – Letter 17
• 18 – Letter 18
• 19 – Letter 19
• 20 – Letter 20
• 21 – Letter 21
• 22 – Letter 22
• 23 – Letter 23
• 24 – Letter 24
• 25 – Letter 25
• 26 – Letter 26
• 27 – Letter 27
• 28 – Letter 28
• 29 – Letter 29
• 30 – Letter 30
• 31 – Letter 31
• 32 – Letter 32
• 33 – Letter 33
• 34 – Letter 34
• 35 – Letter 35
• 36 – Letter 36
• 37 – Letter 37
• 38 – Letter 38
• 39 – Letter 39
• 40 – Letter 40
• 41 – Letter 41
• 42 – Letter 42
• 43 – Letter 43