AJV
is remarkably successful in catching Coleridge
's diction and manner, as several commentators noted. Lord Leoline sat in the chair of pride, / The white-armed stranger by his side. She also captures the sinister...
Publishing
Anna Jane Vardill
The European Magazine printed AJV
's Christobell, A Gothic Tale, a sequel to Coleridge
's Christabel. Vardill's poem was for years an unsolved conundrum for scholars, since it appeared in print before Coleridge's.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
2nd series 28
, pp. 57-88.
57
Textual Production
Anna Jane Vardill
John Abraham Heraud
published in Fraser's Magazine his Reminiscences of Coleridge; in a detailed discussion of Christobell, A Gothic Tale, he inclined to the view that it was the work of Coleridge
, not AJV
.
Haven, Richard. “Anna Vardill Niven’s ’Christobell’: An Addendum”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol.
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Her...
Education
Harriet Shaw Weaver
HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Webb
The title recalls Coleridge
's ancient mariner, and the moment at which, unaware, he blesses the water snakes and finds himself once more able to pray: as if the transcendental, natural world has forgiven him...
Textual Production
Julia Wedgwood
For the next thirty-five years she published steadily on religious, scientific, and moral concerns. She also produced profiles of other authors such as George Eliot
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. A collection of this work...
Literary responses
Dorothy Wellesley
Yeats
admired this volume for its explorations of the picturesque, for its love . . . for undisturbed Nature, a hatred for the abstract, the mechanical, the invented, and for an intensity which he saw...
Intertextuality and Influence
Oscar Wilde
The poem deals with an actual event that occurred at Reading Gaol
: the execution of a soldier, Charles Thomas Woolridge
, for wife murder. The narrator presents himself as one of the band of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan
A few statements are footnoted to their originators, whom EPW
has either paraphrased or versified: Sherlock and Lavater
are her favourites, but she also draws on lighter writers like Horace
, Swift
, and Coleridge
Friends, Associates
Mary Wollstonecraft
At this time MW
's achievements were admired by Southey
, Coleridge
, and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Robinson
, and more warmly Eliza Fenwick
Intertextuality and Influence
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Critical Review noticed this as the interesting, well realised work of an author already known to the public as an ingenious writer, though not always correct either in her sentiments or her style.
DW
's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...
Textual Production
Dorothy Wordsworth
This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW
, for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...