Oliver Wendell Holmes

FHB 's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement. Fauntleroy was, says...

When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy. Davis's publisher...

One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Oliver Wendell Holmes joined forces to get her invited...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

SG continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black writes that SG particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. But her...

After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...

During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...

JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...

In 1872 AL met John Paine , a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts...

This novel has aroused recent critical discussion. Robert T. Eldridge discussed it in The New York Review of Science Fiction in February 1998 under the title The Other Vampire Novel of 1897, and Brenda Mann Hammack

At the end of her life MRM was visited by John Ruskin and the US publisher James T. Fields . Her American literary connections were many: she corresponded with, and in some cases...

The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would...

According to scholars, the first edition of this collection is extremely rare. The second and much expanded edition, published in 1888, tells us that the first edition perished, together with several other of her works...

Holmes claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration. In their introduction to the 1998 edition, scholars Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood