Rose Garden of Persia

Louisa Stuart Costello wrote over 100 texts, articles, poems, songs and knew such people as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Thomas Moore. She was a poet, historian, journalist, painter and novelist. She was one of the most voluminous and popular writers of her day.

She wrote books of travel, which were very popular, as were her novels, chiefly founded on French history. Her book The Rose Garden of Persia contains versions of poems or extracts of poems in Persian, illustrated with imitations of Persian illuminations; there was a new edition in 1888 and others in 1899 and 1913.