William Wordsworth

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...

She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth .

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...

She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

Joseph Warton , who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. This poem was chosen by William Wordsworth

In addition to reviews, RMW contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley who had died...

This first poetic attempt was well received.H. F. Chorley in the Athenæum thought the poems too closely resembled works by Byron and Wordsworth , but allowed that there were some verses which...

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

DW 's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee...

The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth .

On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801...

Two of these poems became well-known on account of musical settings. The volume as a whole established HMW 's reputation and her allegiance to sensibility. It was no doubt a factor in producing Wordsworth 's...

The volume included selections from Byron , George Eliot , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Christina Rossetti , Sir Walter Scott , Alfred Lord Tennyson , Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth .