Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Within a few months of his death, Coleridge wrote into a copy of his own poems, beside This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Ch. And Mary Lamb—dear to my heart, yea, as it were my...

Sarah Burton observes that Charles Lamb 's poem Written a twelvemonth after the Events (of 27 May 1796), which he thought (and expected Coleridge to think) the best piece of writing he had yet produced...

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time. She...

In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning 's Oh, the little more, and how much it is! the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

Indeed, as in MM 's previous novels, the narrative technique contributes largely to the reader's enjoyment. The narrator addresses the reader as dear Madam, then (without modifying this address) invites her to call the narrator...

The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field...

The Illustrations catapulted HM into fame: she was lionized by London society. She received flattering responses from Coleridge and from her precursor as a political economist, Jane Marcet .Christian Isobel Johnstone in...

The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley , Soeur Monique of Wordsworth , An Unmarked Festival...

AM wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie 's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning (1903),...

She once took her friend and ex-teacher Frances Arabella Rowden to hear Coleridge lecture, and sat on tenterhooks as he belittled certain popular poems and seemed about to include one of Rowden's.

On this trip she also visited Bristol and (very briefly) Barnstaple in Devon. In Bath she was haunted (like many visitors after her) by the idea of Jane Austen characters, and at Bristol by...

MRM was working on this poem by July 1810. She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...

She submitted Blanche to Coleridge for his opinion before its first appearance. On the strength of this poem he encouraged her to write for the stage. Her mother, when the still unfinished Blanche was read...

Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...