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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
Textual Production | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Lynn Linton | 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
. |
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 | 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 |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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