Samuel Carter Hall

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

Despite her Irish birth, she disliked and distanced herself from the Irish: Anna Maria Hall 's husband, Samuel Carter Hall , reported her saying that she needed to fumigate her dining-room after entertaining Daniel O'Connell

In her later years JP wrote for military and popular journals, gift-books and annuals (beginning with Friendship's Offering for 1826, which was published in Novewmber 1825) and including Fraser's Magazine, Samuel Hall 's...

JP associated with Frances Trollope , and corresponded with Mrs John Hearne , Samuel Carter Hall and Anna Maria Hall , Francis and Margaret Bennoch , and Sir John Philippart .

In her later years JP had endured a great deal of mockery. Samuel Carter Hall noted in his Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance that she was...

MO and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall , Anna Maria Hall , Dinah Mulock (later Craik) , and Mary Howitt .

By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau . She also knew John Stuart Mill , Giuseppe Garibaldi , James Clark , Edwin Chadwick , William Rathbone , Julia Wedgwood , Elizabeth Barrett Browning

S. C. Hall , the journal's editor, extended a special invitation to her to write the piece.

When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron . She based her work on...

GJ entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe , author John Ruskin , Samuel Carter

Determined to be a writer, MJJ actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard , dramatist James Robinson Planché , the Rev. George Robert Gleig , and Sir Walter Scott

At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall in March 1831, GJ saw William Wordsworth and Maria Edgeworth . In the 1830s and 1840s she became a friend...

Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ 's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria and Samuel Carter Hall .EJ sets...