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Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Wordsworth
expressed a wish that he had written Life himself. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 26 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
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 | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Barker | In Holiday Stories for Boys and GirlsMAB
writes that she has copied real life because she is not clever enough to make up invented stories. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 170 |
Education | Nina Bawden | NB
wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future... |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | Many of the poems focus on family and community history, others on death or on literary subjects. Wordsworth celebrates the poet to whom the world stood for nothing else, but really was. Beer, Patricia. Collected Poems. Carcanet. 25 |
Textual Features | Patricia Beer | It incorporated fifty new poems written since her collected volume. Among them, miscellaneous pieces succeed to a sequence of twelve sonnets entitled Wessex Calendar and a set of modern imagist verses entitled Observations. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Of the anthology poems, The Ship's Return is a ballad in which a lover fails to return with his ship, and A Sketch pictures a mother with her baby. One of the magazine pieces, Retrospection... |
Textual Production | Arnold Bennett | AB
titled an ambitious novel, Imperial Palace, from a phrase used by William Wordsworth
for the mysterious origins of the human individual. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 45640 (10 October 1930): 7 |
Occupation | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
wrote later that many people thought her a singular, and perhaps imprudent person, because I rhymed, and ventured into the world as an artist; but I belonged to a large family, and dreaded dependence... |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isa Blagden | The final line invokes Wordsworth
's The Female Vagrant, andIB
also echoes Thomas Hood
's Bridge of Sighs and the more general iconography of the fallen woman. This treatment of what it meant... |
Textual Features | Isa Blagden | Poems consists of thirty-three pieces, ranging from dramatic poems—the longest being The Story of Two Lives—to sonnets, on topics ranging from Italian politics to orphanhood. Formally, IB
's work is quite versatile though conventional... |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire |
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