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Occupation | William Godwin | The imprint M. J. Godwin and Company was launched the following year. The business flourished, becoming almost a literary salon like that of Joseph Johnson
: visitors included Germaine de Staël
. It remained, however... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Nina Hamnett | She introduces with the words Drink is a great problem an analysis of Charles Lamb
's Confessions of a Drunkard, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 84 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
Reception | Mary Hays | Charles Lamb
's report that MH
composed a piece of poetry for the tomb of her former mentor William Godwin
was a fantasy, part of a letter written in 1815 which presents events in a... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | In May 1794 Thomas Holcroft was indicted for high treason and spent time in prison; but he was acquitted at his trial. During the nine years between the death of Fanny's mother and his next... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Holcroft | FH
's stepmother married an actor named James Kenney
after Thomas Holcroft's death and had several more children. (Charles Lamb
indulged in fantasy about her going on to marry several times more.) Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3:205 |
Wealth and Poverty | Fanny Holcroft | In 1806 Charles Lamb
reported that the Holcroft family were reduced to poverty. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Holcroft | She and her younger siblings were known to Charles
and Mary Lamb
, to their friend Thomas Manning
, and to Mary Matilda Betham
and her family. Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Editor Marrs, Edwin J., Cornell University Press. 3:3, 116-18 and n4, 166-7, 207 |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Reception | Elizabeth Inchbald | Over the course of her career EI
met with great success both critically and in terms of financial reward. She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90. Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company. |
Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | Elizabeth Gaskell
was also a visitor, friend, and neighbour. Returning one of her visits, GJ
was reportedly found sitting on the floor of Gaskell's drawing-room, reading aloud from Charles Lamb
's The Essays of Elia. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 23 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Lamb | Charles Lamb
, brother of Mary
, retired from the office of the East India Company
on grounds of ill-health (no concept of retirement for any other reason was recognised). Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 333 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
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