William Allingham

MA 's parents were cousins. Her great-grandfather was born outside marriage, the eldest of a stable, illegitimate second family. There was no connection with the nineteenth-century Irish poet William Allingham .

MBE set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...

In London, ED met John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor . At Emily Faithfull 's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig , and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope , Louis Blanc

William Allingham met Ouida at a Langham Hotel dinner, provoking the oft-recited sketch of her as dressed in green silk, with a sinister clever face, her hair down, small hands and feet, and a voice...

Yeats felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you, but made his own recommendations: George Sigerson , Thomas Davis , Sir Samuel Ferguson , and William Allingham , among others.

ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .

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 ,...