Oliver Wendell Holmes

Standard Name: Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Holmes claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-13.
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In their introduction to the 1998 edition, scholars Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood
Literary responses Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus.
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Fauntleroy was, says...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
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...
Publishing Emily Jane Pfeiffer
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...
Textual Production Harriet Beecher Stowe
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
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,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
Travel Iza Duffus Hardy
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...
Travel Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
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...

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