Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor unselfishly chaperoned Eliza Lynn, like an actual father, to a whole season of balls and entertainments at Bath (for which she had only a single black dress, whose trimmings she constantly varied:...

Walter Savage Landor admired this novel.George Henry Lewes reviewed it at considerable length for the Athenæum. He considered writing convincing fiction about the Greeks an impossible task, because their ethos was so...

ELL was a prejudiced reviewer of John Forster 's life of Walter Savage Landor , which made no mention of her, though she had been important in Landor's life. She said complacently of her review,...

ELL says, indeed, comparatively little of her own life, but she is an observant, vivid, astute recorder of literary personalities and anecdotes. Her major literary portraits are those of Walter Savage Landor and George Eliot .

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...

Landor , however, considered this the best of her books.

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

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

D'Orsay erected a mausoleum for her remains in the churchyard at Chambourcy near St-Germain-en-Laye. Inscriptions on her tombstone were written in English by Barry Cornwall and in Latin by Walter Savage Landor . Though...

Lady Blessington said of her novels to her friend Walter Savage Landor : they are written on the every-day business of life, without once entering the region of imagination. I wrote because I wanted money...

Landor praised The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, telling Blessington: Your scenes and characters are real, your reflections profound and admirably expressed. The Edinburgh Review agreed as to the realism of the characters...

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...

MRM made a trip to Bath, during which she met Frances Trollope and Walter Savage Landor .

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...

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...