William Hayley

Anna Seward was eagerly awaiting the appearance of this poem in April. Though it was published at Bath, MS 's previous publisher, Joseph Johnson , was listed on the title-page as the London...

AS spent six weeks visiting William and Eliza Hayley at Eartham in Sussex.

AS contributed to debate on Boswell 's Life of Johnson with extracts in the Gentleman's Magazine from her correspondence about Johnson with William Hayley , dating from 1782.

Her relationship with the fashionable poet and author William Hayley was another in which each party flattered the other. She kept up with Hayley's wife, Eliza (who was also a writer, less ambitious and less...

AS was several times painted by George Romney . One portrait, in fashionable garb, belonged to her father. Another was treasured by William Hayley , then vanished from sight. A century later it was found...

The Critical thought this even better than AS 's Elegy on Captain Cook: one of the most pleasing little poems which we ever perused. It doubted the wisdom, however, of printing the letters.

From the first (in a letter to William Hayley about her visit) AS had seen the noise, fire, and steam associated with iron-producing (often hailed at this period as aesthetically sublime) as an intrusion in...

On a month-long visit to William Hayley , CS met the poet Cowper , his friend Mary Unwin , and the painter George Romney .

William Hayley helped CS publish her first book. Her biographer Loraine Fletcher thinks she faked a sudden attack of illness, in the wake of her husband's imprisonment and release, in order to drop in at...

Her title-page bore her name and of Bignor Park, Sussex. The volume was dedicated to William Hayley , who, with Bryan Edwards , had helped her with the complicated and anxious business of reaching...

It was small but handsome. Thomas Stothard did two of the illustrations. His design for sonnet 12 (Written on the Sea Shore.—October 1784—the month in which she crossed the Channel with her children...

Her former publisher, the firm of Cadell , was just passing to a new generation. Both Thomas Cadells , father and son , and William Davies (partner of the latter) found Desmond too revolutionary: it...

She wrote The Old Manor House while staying with a congenial group of friends (including Cowper , William Hayley , and George Romney ). The latter reported, in awed tones, that she would write a...

From at least the late 1770s MS and her family were on terms of close friendship with Eliza and William Hayley ; Mariana's earliest extant letter to Eliza Hayley is dated 22 December 1780. William...

MS was writing poetry while still in her teens, and sending her poems for comment to William Hayley . The social flutter caused in her neighbourhood by a visit from a published woman writer made...