Farjeon, Annabel. Morning has Broken: A Biography of Eleanor Farjeon. Julia MacRae.
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Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Camilla Crosland | Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar
, Lady Blessington |
Education | Florence Dixie | Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary... |
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 | Maria Edgeworth | Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright
, whose guests included Dr Wollaston
and the science-writers Jane Marcet
and Mary Somerville
... |
Textual Production | Sarah Stickney Ellis | In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon | |
politics | Margaret Fell | This approach to the newly-restored monarch was a vital tactical move for the Quakers, who had been persecuted in the last years of the Interregnum. George Fox
was still in prison; MF
went to London... |
death | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister
wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted... |
Education | Stella Gibbons | |
Education | Augusta Gregory | AG
and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiii |
Textual Production | Constantia Grierson | Copies of Thomas Moore
's Odes of Anacreon (first published in 1800) were issued with a single-sheet printing of The Art of Printing (a poem ascribed to CG
) laid in. English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ham | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Felicia Hemans | She particularly admired Joanna Baillie
's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart
. Germaine de Staël
's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Hervey | Tom Moore
's comments on EH
include hearsay comment on her grotto. Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor John, first Earl Russell, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 197-8 |
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