Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson.
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Unlike a volume by the same title which she published in 1827, this one included new poetry as well as former contributions to magazines. Her preface mentions the influence exercised over her by Coleridge
... |
| Textual Features | Edith Sitwell | The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer
, with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking... |
| Dedications | Edith Sitwell | She dedicated this To the Persons from Porlock: presumably a claim to have been more frequently interrupted than Coleridge
. |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Coleridge
(though he was later respectful of CS
's sonnets) was surely aiming at her in his Nehemiah Higginbottom sonnet parodies in the Monthly Magazine. Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 363-92. 363, 381 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Coleridge
, in the preface to the second edition of his Poems, named CS
and William Lisle Bowles
as having served the cause of poetry by reviving the sonnet. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 266 |
| Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge
well enough to entertain him at her house, although he had already written parodies of her sonnet style. Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 363-92. 388n1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| Author summary | Robert Southey | Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly... |
| politics | Robert Southey | Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge
to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Robert Southey | He married Edith Fricker
in 1795; Coleridge
married her elder sister. |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | Women, says ES
, must be essentially equal with men since both are made in God's image. But women's existing social position Strutt, Elizabeth. The Feminine Soul. J. S. Hodson. 1 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS
met Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 24 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
| 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 |
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