author

Lewis Goldsmith

d. 1846

A combative political writer and journalist, he built a career out of sharp commentary on the turbulent politics of his time. His life moved from England to continental Europe and back again, giving his work an unusually international perspective for the early 19th century.

9 Audiobooks

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete

by Lewis Goldsmith

Quotes and Images from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud

Quotes and Images from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 5

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7

by Lewis Goldsmith

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4

by Lewis Goldsmith

About the author

Lewis Goldsmith was an English political writer and journalist who died in 1846. A standard biographical source describes him as active in political writing and journalism, and places his origins in a family of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, probably born at Richmond, Surrey.

He became known for writing on public affairs during a period shaped by revolution, war, and shifting alliances across Europe. That wider European setting seems to have mattered to his career: he spent part of his life on the continent as well as in Britain, and his work was closely tied to the political arguments of his day.

Because surviving quick-reference sources on him are fairly limited, many smaller details of his life are not consistently confirmed. What does stand out is his role as a vigorous commentator whose writing belonged to the lively, often hard-fought world of Georgian and early Victorian political journalism.