Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Walter Savage Landor
Standard Name: Landor, Walter Savage
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Spender | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith Somerville | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | 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... |
Travel | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
made a trip to Bath, during which she met Frances Trollope
and Walter Savage Landor
. 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: 268 Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 195 |
Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | 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... |
Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Landor
, however, considered this the best of her books. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 358 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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
. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Marguerite Blessington
met Alphonse de Lamartine
and Walter Savage Landor
in Florence. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 133, 141 |
death | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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... |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | 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... |
Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | Landor
praised The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, telling Blessington: Your scenes and characters are real, your reflections profound and admirably expressed. Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. Downey. 356 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Penelope Lively | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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:... |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | Walter Savage Landor
admired this novel. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Timeline
30 January 1775: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...
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30 January 1775
Walter Savage Landor
, poet and essayist, was born probably at Ipsley Court, Warwick.
1795: Walter Savage Landor's first publication,...
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1795
Walter Savage Landor
's first publication, Poems, appeared; he later suppressed this publication.
After February 1806: Walter Savage Landor published Simonidea,...
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After February 1806
Walter Savage Landor
published Simonidea, which included the well-known poemRose Aylmer.
March 1824-May 1829: Walter Savage Landor published Imaginary...
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March 1824-May 1829
Walter Savage Landor
published Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen.
17 September 1864: Walter Savage Landor, poet and essayist,...
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17 September 1864
Walter Savage Landor
, poet and essayist, died in Florence, Italy, and was buried in the English Cemetery
there.
Texts
Landor, Walter Savage et al. “Some Letters of Walter Savage Landor”. Century: A Popular Quarterly, pp. 511-21.