Samuel Rogers

They included public men like George Canning , John Philpot Curran , and Lord Erskine , and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble , George Colman the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays...

MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...

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

During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC ) met Jane Marcet and the publisher John Murray . Then or later...

Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox (with whom her relationship was very close),

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...

Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork and writers Joanna Baillie , William Wordsworth , and Samuel Rogers . The...

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

Newington Green was a fortunate place for MW to have settled: it was a centre of intellectual Dissent. There she met the radical minister Richard Price , the poet Samuel Rogers , and the teacher...

Because her husband , like her father , was well-connected, MCH was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam , Samuel Rogers , and...

From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers . Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she...

This book began a fruitful partnership with London publisher Charles Tilt . It comprises about forty poems and songs and six copperplate etchings, her first attempts. It is dedicated, both in a poem...

Illustrated Poems by LHS , 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers .

His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...