Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
attended a party given by Thackeray
for Charlotte Brontë
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 211 |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton
, a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne
and Lord Monteagle
; writers William Thackeray
, Charles Dickens
, Emily Eden
, Elliot Warburton
, Alfred Tennyson |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sarah Hoey | In order to help establish herself, the future FSH
took with her an introduction from William Carleton
to William Thackeray
. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
criticized the party, which was also attended by Elizabeth Gaskell
, William Thackeray
, and Tom Taylor
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 204 Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 205 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | But her reputation was such that even friendships were minefields: a friendly relationship with Thackeray
exposed her firstly to a direct snub from his friend, or lover, Jane Brookfield
(who refused to meet the notorious... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
Friends, Associates | Flora Annie Steel | Before this disaster her parents's house was frequented by such people as the author William Makepeace Thackeray
and the illustrator George Cruikshank
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | Stoney's first wife had died in early 1775, after alleged beatings and starvation, leaving him everything she owned (like her successor's, it was colliery money). Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton. 42, 44 |
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