Walter Savage Landor

MB was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor , with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning , and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James .

Dedicated to Walter Savage Landor from his friend and admirer, the work contains several verbal portraits of MB 's acquaintances and friends.

The title comes from Walter Savage Landor 's stately, self-dramatising credo: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art (in which Landor presents this line as part of his last words or self-chosen epitaph). The...

Walter Savage Landor paid tribute in his ode To Caroline Chisholm, printed in The Examiner, to her arduous . . . heaven-guided enterprise.

The diary (in the possession of ES 's Coghill relations) is a wonderfully vivid and engaging text, from youth to old age. It delights in anecdote and comicality, but touches the heart with its stark...

Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant (an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor , whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends...

While visiting Italy, JWM stayed with Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in Rome, beginning...

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

During her months in Florence, FPC visited the Brownings, Thomas Adolphus Trollope , and Walter Savage Landor . While there she also became a close friend of Mary Somerville .

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

Marguerite Blessington met Alphonse de Lamartine and Walter Savage Landor in Florence.

The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey , William Hazlitt , and Thomas De Quincey . In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin , Thomas Manning

Her daughter, Anna Maria , married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker , and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR 's grandsons took an interest...

ES 's father, Doctor John Cottle Spender , was a friend of Walter Savage Landor .

She was buried, says Richard Garnett, in the cemetery which holds the remains of Mrs. Browning and Landor and Theodore Parker and so many other gifted men and women of English race. An article...