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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | Literary tourists like Byron
visited her there. Dow, Gillian. “Places of our own: In search of literary treasure”. Mslexia, Vol. 39 , No. 2, pp. 8-11. 9 |
Friends, Associates | Grace Elliott | She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince
, according to the account in notes to her published journal. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press. 150-1 |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Regency England GS
met Coleridge
, Southey
, and Byron
. Jane Austen
, however, made a point of avoiding her. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 74, 76 |
Friends, Associates | Cecil Frances Alexander | The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | TM
had a talent for beginning friendships under bizarre circumstances. Francis Jeffrey
's review of Moore's anti-American Epistles, Odes, and other Poems (1806) sparked a famous (short-lived) feud between the two men. Jeffrey's negative review... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | During their journeys between London and the Highlands, EG
and her family would stop at various locations where they met interesting people. For example, while resting at Seaham for some time, they became acquainted with... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | By 1840, ABJ
expressed a desire to be of service to Lady Byron
in her affairs. When Elizabeth Medora Leigh
(supposedly the daughter of Byron
and his half-sister Augusta Leigh
) arrived in England to... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan's genius for social life, and for forging relations with famous and celebrated people, continued from youth to age. On her second visit to London she met the bluestocking hostess the Countess of Cork and Orrery |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | The party consisted of Mary and Percy Shelley
, their baby William, Mary's sister Claire Clairmont
, Byron
, and Dr John W. Polidori
. Claire had become Byron's mistress, and in January 1817 bore... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | When CF
met both Byron
and Germaine de Staël
in spring 1814 at a dinner party at the house of Sir Humphry Davy
, she was unimpressed by Byron and his outpourings of radical opinion... |
Health | Charlotte Dacre | Since CD
was said to have been ill for a long time before she died, some particular illness may have caused Byron
to suppose her dead in 1816. |
Health | Margiad Evans | As a child of about three she had terrible nightmares about people (nuns) who were running away from something, on fire and dying. She had dreadful dreams again at about seventeen, and then a recurrent... |
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