William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William

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Friends, Associates Felicia Hemans
The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...
Friends, Associates Georgiana Chatterton
Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork and writers Joanna Baillie , William Wordsworth , and Samuel Rogers .
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2640 (1878): 693
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett.
34, 76
The...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wordsworth
DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
1: 317
Friends, Associates Annie Tinsley
She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth .
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
8
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...
Friends, Associates Thomas De Quincey
He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth . His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson.
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press.
viii
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Gaskell
While staying near the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, EG met William Wordsworth and received his autograph.
Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon.
410 and n57
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
231-2
Friends, Associates Mary Russell Mitford
She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
58
who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Procter
AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...
Friends, Associates Thomas De Quincey
It seems that the Wordsworth family (William , Mary , and Dorothy ) were more troubled about the marriage than about the sexual relation that preceded it. De Quincey evidently forgave Dorothy Wordsworth (who...
Friends, Associates Geraldine Jewsbury
At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall in March 1831, GJ saw William Wordsworth and Maria Edgeworth .
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
15-16
In the 1830s and 1840s she became a friend...
Friends, Associates Mary Bryan
MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...
Friends, Associates Mary Lamb
An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.
Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
323-6
Friends, Associates Caroline Bowles
Although William Wordsworth can be regarded as mediator between Kate Southey and CB , he was convinced that Bowles was at fault. The entire Wordsworth clan, and Sara Coleridge , allied themselves with Southey's youngest...

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