Coventry Patmore

Four of the poems had previously appeared in magazines. Of these, Why wilt thou Chide?, which was addressed to Coventry Patmore and responded to his violent jealousy of AM 's friendships with other men...

Poet and editor W. E. Henley , printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. Henley introduced...

Coventry Patmore praised the volume hyperbolically in the Fortnightly Review: At rare intervals the world is startled by the phenomenon of a woman whose qualities of mind and heart seem to demand a revision...

She dedicated the volume to Coventry Patmore , though their friendship had largely waned.

The volume includes Prefatory Poems by Coventry Patmore , Francis Thompson , George Meredith , Vita Sackville-West , and others. Many of them were written long before Meynell's death, and are revealing about the...

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

AM was twice nominated for the Poet Laureateship. The first time was in 1895 during the debate about a successor to Tennyson ; it was Patmore who nominated her and strenuously argued for her appointment...

VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans

Those who publicly testified that the relationship between Hunt and Ford had every outward appearance of a marriage included Brigit Patmore , wife of Coventry Patmore 's grandson).

Literary historian Rebecca Lynne Russell Baird indicates that during this time CGbecame known as somewhat of a recluse who let little be known of her home life. Yet this was the period during...

CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...

The narrative, with its freight of evocative description, moves back and forth between successive generations of the Dane family, beginning with the newly-married Victorian pair, Griselda and John (who become, respectively, a reluctantly full-time house-manager...

In this story Margaret Ansted arrives at the sleepy town of Islesworth to become a maid at the Walcombe estate following the death of her father. This action is described as a transformation into the...

Her most commonly printed poem, Philip My King, anticipates, using biblical imagery, the entire life of her godson Philip Bourke Marston . The speaker entreats him, when he marries, to Rule kindly, /...