Thomas Campbell

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Several poems address national political issues, and most of those in this volume express a hatred of war, usually from the point of view of bereaved women. Written at the commencement of the year 1813...

Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...

They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell , Robert Southey , Charles Lamb , editor William Jerdan , and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland , Jane

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...

Among AG 's acquaintances in her later years were Felicia Hemans and Thomas Campbell . Among those who praised her acute mind and generous nature were Edward Topham , John Gibson Lockhart . She...

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...

A friend who was crucial in AB 's career was Robert Anderson , editor of a famous poetry anthology and of the Edinburgh Magazine. Other important friends were John Leyden (linguist, poet, and...

William Beattie (biographer of Thomas Campbell ) said ABreceived an excellent education, and was highly accomplished. He does not, however, particularise.

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...