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Residence | Harriet Martineau | She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth
planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother
, after their time abroad and after staying seven months with the Hutchinsons at Sockburn-on-Tees, arrived at the cottage they had rented at Grasmere, later (after the Wordsworths' time) named... |
Residence | Eliza Fletcher | In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF
to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
, with William
and Mary Wordsworth
and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 2: 133-4 |
Residence | Dora Carrington | Carrington loved and was creatively inspired by their new home. She compared it to Dorothy
and William Wordsworth
's Lake District arrangements. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 161 |
Residence | E. M. Delafield | |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, De Quincey
, and Ebenezer Elliot
. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 499 |
Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 220 |
Reception | L. E. L. | LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain
has argued, she became (with Hemans
, and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor... |
Reception | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Following Wordsworth
's death (on 23 April), the Athenæum proposed EBB
as his successor for poet laureate. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1179 (1850): 585 |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem... |
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