Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
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 | Adelaide Procter | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife
, as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson
, John Ruskin
, Charles Kingsley
, and Alfred Tennyson
. |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter
and Louise Guiney
, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe
(whose funeral she and Annie Fields
attended in... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning
, Frederic Leighton
, Clara Schumann
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dean Stanley
, J. A. Froude |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's later social circle included many writers: Sydney, Lady Morgan
, who became a close friend and for whom GJ
acted as amanuensis; author Lady Llanover
; author and publisher Douglas Jerrold
; and... |
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, 1990. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, 1 Mar.–31 May 1993, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Boyle | MB
met Alfred Tennyson
; he became a good friend, and following the death of her close friend Lady Marian Alford
in 1888 he sent her the poem To Mary Boyle. 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, 1990. |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray
and Alfred Tennyson
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | A year after AM
published her Preludes, Tennyson
invited her and her sister to his home at Aldworth in Berkshire, where he told her that he was hurt because she had not sent... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Charles | EC
, however, ascribes the formative moments in her intellectual development to other sources. She counts among her early influences and inspirations writers Harriet Martineau
and Anne Trelawny
, and naturalist and artist Colonel Hamilton Smith |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kingsley | In 1859 Charles and Fanny visited the Tennyson
family in the Isle of Wight, where, much to FK
's delight, Tennyson read her the whole of his poem Maud. Chitty, Susan. The Beast and the Monk: A Life of Charles Kingsley. Mason/Charter, 1975. 98, 158 |
Timeline
1957: A patent was filed in the USA for the artificial...
Building item
1957
A patent was filed in the USA for the artificial sweetener Sweet'N Low (named after Tennyson
's line Sweet and low, sweet and low, which apostrophizes not a taste but a wind).
Lennon, J. Robert. “Tastes like Cancer”. London Review of Books, 8 Mar. 2007, pp. 41-2.
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