Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Standard Name: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Literary responses Emma Marshall
Longfellow wrote to tell EM she had the applause of youth and age for this book: that of his daughter Edith and himself.
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
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He also sent her an American review, which praised the novel...
Literary responses Adelaide Procter
The high opinions of many of AP 's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who...
names Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
JFLW never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname...
Occupation Fanny Kemble
She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them.
Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster.
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The readings were popular and lucrative. Longfellow wrote a...
Publishing Beatrice Harraden
In a preface to the authorized American edition (dated 14 May 1894 at Tuckahoe, New York) BH related how she was unable to find the quotation with which she wished to title her book...
Textual Features Isabella Neil Harwood
The King and the Angel is INH 's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt 's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...
Textual Production Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , wrote to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to express her appreciation for his work; she sent copies of verses she had written on him that had appeared in the Boston Pilot.
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray.
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Textual Production Beatrice Harraden
BH published a novel entitled (quoting from a song in Longfellow 's Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863) Ships that Pass in the Night, dedicated to her friends Agnes and John Kendall ...
Textual Production Isabella Banks
IB published her last two novels: Bond Slaves: The Story of a Struggle, about the Luddite Rebellion, and The Slowly Grinding Mills, whose title is borrowed from a line by Longfellow .
Luddite...
Textual Production Mary Cowden Clarke
Mary Cowden Clarke published a parody of Hiawatha by Longfellow : The Song of Drop o' Wather by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles , begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...
Textual Production Jean Ingelow
Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier , H. W. Longfellow.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Lydia Howard Sigourney
Illustrated Poems by LHS , 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers .
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production Katharine Tynan
In addition to this editorial work, KT also wrote introductions or forewords for a number of volumes, including Lionel Johnson 's Poems (1904), Edmund Leamy 's By the Barrow River and Other Stories (1907), The...

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