Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green.
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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 | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
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 | 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 | Elizabeth Sewell | In 1857 she became acquainted with Alfred Lord Tennyson
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. 158 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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. |
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 | 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 | 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. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
travelled with her father's friend and soon hers, the photographer Julia Cameron
. At Freshwater, she became a close companion of Alfred Tennyson
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 130 |
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 | 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 | 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... |
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