Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Among the novels where ET
highlights gender roles by reworking well-known stories, Alice Fell, 1980, deals with the Greek myth of Persephone under a title borrowed from William Wordsworth
. |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | A third society or smart-set novel of similar type, Those Barren Leaves (titled from Wordsworth
), followed in 1925. |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell. 34 |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),... |
Textual Production | Flora Thompson | 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... |
Textual Production | E. M. Delafield | Its title comes from Wordsworth
's poem, The World is Too Much with Us. |
Textual Production | Susanna Blamire | Gilpin/Coward (who provided a good deal of biographical information and other commentary) argued that SB
had the most original and most reflective mind that Cumberland has produced, apart from William Wordsworth
. Blamire, Susanna, and Catherine Gilpin. Songs and Poems. Editor Coward, George, George Routledge. 35-6 |
Textual Production | Margaret Fuller | Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 22, pp. 16-18. 16 |
Textual Production | Sara Maitland | SM
edited Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, a collection of essays on women in this radical decade whose title draws on William Wordsworth
's memory of being young and idealistic at the... |
Textual Production | Mary Ann Browne | The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years. Browne, Mary Ann. Ignatia. Hamilton, Adams. prelims |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | AC
published, as Agatha Christie Mallowan, a collection of travel reminiscences, Come, Tell Me How You Live: the title (quoted from William Wordsworth
questioning the leech-gatherer) puns on tell, the Arabic word... |
Textual Production | Margaret Gatty | MG
followed this great success with Worlds not Realized, 1856 (an instructional book whose title is adapted from a line in Wordsworth
about the blank misgivings of the soul obstinately questioning the resistant physical... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell
wrote to George Smith
of Smith, Elder
on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy... |
Timeline
January 1823: Charles Lamb published the first volume of...
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January 1823
Charles Lamb
published the first volume of his Essays of Elia, which had been appearing regularly since August 1820 in the London Magazine.
1825: Alexander Dyce, then a twenty-seven-year-old...
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1825
Alexander Dyce
, then a twenty-seven-year-old reluctant clergyman, published his Specimens of British Poetesses, a project in rediscovering women's literary history.
1830: Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans's Dartmoor,...
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1830
Nearly a decade after Felicia Hemans
's Dartmoor, a poem, Sophie Dixon
published at Plymouth two journals, in prose and verse, of excursions around the moor.
8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...
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8 September 1836
The Transcendental Club
(also known as the Hedge Club
and the Symposium
) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.
May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...
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May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
7 September 1838: Grace Darling, twenty-two-year-old daughter...
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7 September 1838
Grace Darling
, twenty-two-year-old daughter of the lighthouse-keeper of the Longstone light on the Outer Farne Islands off the Northumbrian coast, helped her father row out in a clumsy boat through heavy seas to rescue...
July 1850: The early version of William Wordsworth's...
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July 1850
The early version of William Wordsworth
's Prelude, written between 1799 and May 1805, was posthumously published.
February 1930: D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee published...
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February 1930
D. B. Wyndham Lewis
and Charles Lee
published The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, which includes bad poetry by John Dryden
, John Keats
, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
along with other canonical figures.
10 September 2003: Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of...
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10 September 2003
Guardian Unlimited Books named as Site of the Week a website entitled Poetry Landmarks of Britain: a map of poetic assocations plotted on an interactive map of Britain, searchable by region or category.
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