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Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | FH
's literary correspondents and friends included Grace Aguilar
, Joanna Baillie
(whose Beacon she recalled reading when very young), and Mary Howitt
. Elwood, Anne Katharine. Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England, from the Commencement of the Last Century. Henry Colburn. 238 Chorley, Henry Fothergill. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans. Saunders and Otley. I: 145 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | CB
's dealings with Blackwood's led to a positive working relationship with editor John Wilson
. She also maintained a long correspondence with Anna Eliza Bray
and (in later years) a shorter one with poet... |
Friends, Associates | Ralph Waldo Emerson | As a result of his lecture tours, he became one of the most prominent American intellectuals in Britain, and was personally connected to numerous writers including Jane Carlyle
and Mary Howitt
. |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Ellen Wood | As she began to establish herself as a writer, EW
became a friend of her fellow authors Anna Maria Hall
, Julia Kavanagh
, and Mary Howitt
. The latter wrote her a complimentary letter... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans
(who wrote to ask her for an autograph), L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 173-4 Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 213 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt
and Thomas Carlyle
, and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau
. In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand
and the Polish poet... |
Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | In old age JWM
was attentive to William Howitt
in his last illness. Margaret
, younger daughter of William and Mary Howitt
, duly visited her in return. Margaret gave her relations a vivid account... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
met Mary Howitt
in Heidelberg and attended many society balls with her. They shared much in common and became close friends. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 143-4 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | One happy result of this expansion of her sphere was the cementing of her friendship with Mary
and William Howitt
. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 219 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall
, Anna Maria Hall
, Dinah Mulock (later Craik)
, and Mary Howitt
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | She also liked to escape from Manchester when she was able to. She spent the evening of Christmas 1850 at William
and Mary Howitt
's home in London swapping ghost stories with them and Eliza Meteyard
. Mitchell, Sally. The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women’s Reading 1835-1880. Bowling Green State University Popular Press. 32 |
Friends, Associates | Grace Aguilar | Around this time her acquaintance deepened with Camilla Crosland
. Crosland, Camilla. Landmarks of a Literary Life, 1820-1892. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 174 Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press. 145 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Meteyard | She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Harriet Martineau
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
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