William Wordsworth

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

Because her husband , like her father , was well-connected, MCH was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam , Samuel Rogers , and...

LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth .

During MJJ 's visit to Rydal Mount, she rode ponies through the nearby mountains while listening to Wordsworth recite poetry. Sometimes during these excursions, she received freshly picked nosegays from the celebrated poet. Later...

She was introduced to William Wordsworth through her brother , and Wordsworth visited the Hamilton siblings at Dunsink in August 1829. She also knew Maria Edgeworth , Felicia Hemans , and publisher William Jerdan. .

LA dined with Crabb Robinson , Wordsworth , Henry Coleridge , and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton .

She was too shy to move in literary circles, though she did meet several writers who called on her, including Sarah Austin and Sir Charles Trevelyan . With each of them she felt uncomfortable, as...

MS claimed that William Wordsworth was her friend.

JW visited Harriet Martineau at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth , whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.

At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Douglas Jerrold , William Wordsworth , and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank .

A Christian and political radical, STC associated with William Godwin and Robert Southey . William Wordsworth wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...

On the last day of their expedition, ES visited William Wordsworth and his family at Rydal Mount. ES found the visit awkward, though she appreciated Wordsworth's kindness.

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron . Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...

Charles Mathews's elder brother, William (who died young, though after EKM ), was the most intimate Cambridge friend of William Wordsworth .