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George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron
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Standard Name: Byron, George Gordon,,, sixth Baron
Used Form: Lord Byron
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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| Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The Times Literary Supplement perceptively noted that this story might have been written in refutation of Byron
's dictum: Man's love is a thing apart while it is a woman's whole existence. Carew, Dudley. “Folly’s Handbook”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1331, p. 532. 532 |
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | Owing in large part to an article in The Wasp on 7 October 1826, reception of LEL's work was adversely affected in some quarters by rumours that her relationship with William Jerdan
was sexual and... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Joanna Baillie
, to whom the author sent the volume, liked it on the first reading, and still better on the second. She found the title poem truly beautiful, full of striking & pleasing, melancholy... |
| Literary responses | Rudyard Kipling | RK
's reputation as a writer skyrocketed after he arrived in London in 1889. His biographer C. E. Carrington
declares that there had been nothing like his sudden rise to fame since Byron
's much-quoted... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan
followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans
in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB
... |
| Literary responses | Laurence Hope | The Garden of Káma proved extremely popular, and was reissued in each of the next fourteen years under various combinations of the two titles (with later editions tending to lose the accent in Káma)... |
| Literary responses | Ann Hawkshaw | In a review for the Athenæum, George Walter Thornbury
stated abruptly that AH
's collection has at least two merits,—it has no Preface and it has a purpose. Finding that the sonnets do not... |
| Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
| Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The Athenæum carried a signed review for this book by Virginia Woolf
, who went straight to the heart of the matter. It would be easy to make fun of her; equally easy to condescend... |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan,. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press. 2: 202 |
| Literary responses | Frances Browne | George Croly
in the Dublin Review also focused on FB
's blindness rather than on her writing. He reprinted the book's preface almost in its entirety as one of several other case studies on the... |
| Literary responses | Maria Callcott | Her adult poetry (still in manuscript) was regarded by her editor of 1975 as conventional, sapless, and over-influenced by the early Byron
. Lawrence, C. E., and Maria Callcott. “Lady Callcott and Her Book”. Little Arthur’s History of England, Century Edition, J. Murray, p. xiii - xx. xvii |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Byron
, in a letter to Murray
by 30 September 1816, praised The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy as a good poem—very, and he echoed it in Canto 4 of Childe... |
| Literary Setting | Emma Tennant |
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