William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William

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Textual Production Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Production Susanna Blamire
Maxwell had been an admirer of SB 's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...
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.
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If it was indeed a poem, it preceded Wordsworth 's more famous composition of this name by five years.
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.
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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.
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, No. 22, pp. 16-18.
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she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...
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
Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...
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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