Leigh Hunt

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

LAM appears to have contended with a reputation as a bluestocking. In Our Wild Flowers she notes: I am especially anxious to root out the idea that if people be clever, they may be untidy...

On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies (a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived...

AM published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith , Leigh Hunt , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , and Coventry Patmore .

His father, Peter George Patmore , was a writer and journalist. He edited The New Monthly Magazine from 1841 to 1853, and counted among his friends William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Richard Monckton Milnes

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising. During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...