“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
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Textual Production | Wendy Cope | |
Textual Production | Michèle Roberts | MR
's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft
, William Wordsworth
, and Annette Vallon
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 130 |
Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them. |
Textual Production | Mary Robinson | In her capacity as editor she made an exception to the paper's policy of publishing original poems only, for the sake of Wordsworth
's The Mad Mother, reprinted from Lyrical Ballads. Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Mary Robinson: Selected Poems, edited by Judith Pascoe, Broadview, pp. 19-64. 54 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | William Wordsworth
's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson
's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Among the novels where ET
highlights gender roles by reworking well-known stories, Alice Fell, 1980, deals with the Greek myth of Persephone under a title borrowed from William Wordsworth
. |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | A third society or smart-set novel of similar type, Those Barren Leaves (titled from Wordsworth
), followed in 1925. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Joanna Baillie | Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott
, George Crabbe
, William Wordsworth
, Robert Southey
, Felicia Hemans
(whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant
of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wordsworth | This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW
, for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),... |
Textual Production | Flora Thompson | She had begun this the summer after the war, calling it These Too Were Victorians. Her publisher, Geoffrey Cumberlege
, wrote with congratulations on the first instalment she sent him, and offered her an... |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 34 |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | Its title comes from Wordsworth
's poem, The World is Too Much with Us. |
Timeline
January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...
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January 1823
Charles Lamb
published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
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1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...
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1830
Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans
's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon
published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.
8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...
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8 September 1836
The Transcendental Club
(also known as the Hedge Club
and the Symposium
) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.
May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...
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May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
7 September 1838: Grace Darling, twenty-two-year-old daughter...
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7 September 1838
Grace Darling
, twenty-two-year-old daughter of the lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone light on the Outer Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast, helped her father row out in a clumsy boat through heavy seas to rescue...
July 1850: The early version of William Wordsworth's...
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July 1850
The early version of William Wordsworth
's Prelude, written between 1799 and May 1805, was posthumously published.
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
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February 1930
D. B. Wyndham Lewis
and Charles Lee
published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden
, John Keats
, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
along with other canonical figures.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
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