Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them. |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | She thought of the title and the central idea for the novel in the British Library, watching that great Coleridge
scholar, Kathleen Coburn
, and thinking of the poet possessing his critic, and of the... |
Textual Production | Rhoda Broughton | The title is probably quoted from Coleridge
's Ancient Mariner: not from the mariner's exotic adventures, but from a mention of the bride whose wedding his listener was trying to attend, and for which... |
Literary responses | Emily Brontë | Since the early criticism which took its lead from Charlotte's biographical portrait, a biographical and hagiographic industry has arisen around all three Brontë sisters and their home in Haworth. A. Mary F. Robinson
published... |
Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Bishop | |
Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
wrote To Matilda Betham
from a Stranger (later published privately), wishing that she might be as impassioned as Sappho
—but holier and happier. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 202 |
Education | Mary Matilda Betham | More important than his teaching were her own efforts in a congenial atmosphere. The family would read aloud from poems and plays, providing their own appreciation and criticism. In her diary she wrote: In our... |
Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
said that this book received flattering praises in reviews. Betham, Mary Matilda. “Preface”. Crow-Quill Flights. 7 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Bennett | Mary Russell Mitford
read the Beggar Girl with delight as a schoolgirl in Chelsea, liking it not only for the character and the liveliness, but for the abundant story—incident toppling after incident; all sufficiently natural... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, once ALB
's protegé, began a series of public attacks on her writing in lectures. He deplored the way traditional nursery stories were giving way to tales inculcating insipid goodyness. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 445 |
Violence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Although their meetings were cordial, Lamb criticised her, as well as her writings, as an intellectual woman. He commented to Coleridge
that (apart from Elizabeth Inchbald
) he found clever women impudent, forward, unfeminine, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
walked forty miles in order to meet ALB
and her husband
. He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 399-400 |
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