Costello

Costello, LOUISA STUART, a voluminous English authoress, was born in 1799. In Paris, and afterwards in London, she painted miniatures, and enjoyed the patronage of the Burdett family. From 1852 she received a civil list pension of £75 until her death, which took place at Boulogne, 24th April 1870. Her first production, at least of any note, was Specimens of the Early Poetry of France (1835), but it was her bright descriptions of travel in Auvergne, Béarn and the Pyrenees, North Wales, Venice, and the Tyrol, that made her really popular. Her semi-historical novels on Catharine de' Medici, Mary of Burgundy, and Anne of Brittany were read in their day.