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Literary responses | Caroline Bowles | A few months after publication, The Birth-Day was read with very much pleasure by the William WordsworthWordsworth
clan. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 122 |
Literary responses | Jane Warton | 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. Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, pp. 84-92. 85 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
Occupation | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
Occupation | Anne Evans | Although she valued her verse as a vehicle to express her acute perceptions of pleasure and pain, AE
preferred music. She was bothered by what she called, quoting William Wordsworth
, the weight of too... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham
; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth
, Scott
, Tennyson
, and Browning
. Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago. 66 |
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... |
Occupation | Alfred Tennyson | AT
became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
, who had died that April. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 232 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | She loved teaching grammar, and converting her pupils to Wordsworth
and other poetry, but she hated the headmaster's enthusiastic use of corporal punishment, ran a campaign against it, and was sacked from her job. Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books. 67-8 |
politics | Leigh Hunt | LH
's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth |
politics | Isabella Lickbarrow | This indicates an active political conscience. Lord Lonsdale wielded his huge local power on behalf of the Tory Party. In February this year there were riots in Kendal when two sons of Lonsdale, standing as... |
Author summary | Robert Southey | |
Author summary | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both... |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | 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... |
Publishing | Mary Maria Colling | The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem... |
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