Oliver Wendell Holmes

She also knew Frances Power Cobbe , Vernon Lee , Florence Fenwick Miller , and Mabel Robinson (likely, too, her sister A. Mary F. Robinson , who also wrote for the Athenæum at the same...

During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...

Their friends at this period of their lives included song-writer Alexander Anderson , social reformers Patrick Geddes and his wife , and theologian Robert Flint (who introduced them to Oliver Wendell Holmes ). They knew...

Two hundred people celebrated HBS 's seventy-first birthday, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and William Dean Howells .

HBS developed a friendship with Oliver Wendell Holmes . She also gained notoriety by supporting a young writer named Anna Dickinson who caused a sensation by writing a novel which defended interracial marriage. This led...

HBS spent some years writing journalism and children's stories after the publication of Agnes of Sorrento. Then, after settling in a winter home in Florida, she resumed a romance she had begun some...

Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields (who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) and his wife...

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

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...

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

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...

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...