Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Byron
and Wordsworth
were important poetic influences. Books that Elizabeth Barrett owned and kept until her death included Philip James Bailey
's Festus, A Poem, a major text of the spasmodic school, L. E. L. |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The title piece is a lyrical drama depicting, largely in the form of a conversation between two angels, the crucifixion of Christ. Among the accompanying pieces were several on literary personages or topics: To Mary Russell Mitford |
Literary responses | Robert Browning | This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB
and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett
, since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her... |
Literary responses | Mary Bryan | The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind |
Textual Features | Mary Bryan | She wrote him long letters, discussing his work and opinions as well as her own, in an elaborately parenthetical and breathless style. The first extant letter begins, Will you pity—I have said—or will you not... |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | Sir Walter Scott
had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of... |
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... |
Textual Production | Mary Bryan | The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB
alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books. viii |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Bryan | The poems tend to the plaintive, but an allegiance to Wordsworth
and to his rule of simplicity keeps MB
from overstatement. The opening poem in the volume is a critical appreciation of Wordsworth's achievement which... |
Textual Production | Lady Charlotte Bury | It is in large format from John Murray
, illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband
, and dedicated to the queen
. Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister
and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth
and the Irish poet... |
Textual Production | A. S. Byatt | In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them. |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | The painter Van Gogh
is a constant presence in this highly allusive novel, which takes Stephanie Potter, now Orton, through pregnancy and birth (while she tries to hold on to her former identity by reading... |
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