L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Una Marson | The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint
, who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM
nevertheless found opportunities... |
Residence | Harriet Martineau | She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth
planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Writing to Mary Russell Mitford
of her hope that they might meet, HM
acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett. 1: 263-4 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Kirkham Mathews | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Melvill | Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone
recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition. Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol. 68 , No. 1, pp. 38-77. 40 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Anne Meredith | Most of the section called Poems, as well as some other pieces, describe flowers or other features of the natural world. Nature and poetry (which is celebrated in the opening Invocation to Song)... |
Dedications | Louisa Anne Meredith | Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM
) followed her Poems with several more books of verse on botanical themes. First came The Romance of Nature; or, The Flower Seasons, 1836, which again combines verse (about... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | The forty poems date from the last five years before publication. Their styles are derivative. Song of the Day to the Night is reminiscent of Shelley
, Soeur Monique of Wordsworth
, An Unmarked Festival... |
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),... |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 58 |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | For centuries LMWM
has been interpreted and re-interpreted, judged less often as writer than as an exemplar of the unacceptable female. Her fame and/or notoriety flourished during her lifetime, and posthumous publications kept it alive... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. M. Montgomery | |
Leisure and Society | Hannah More | Once an omnivorous reader, HM
restricted her choice of books in later life, in line with her religious convictions. She delighted in William Cowper
as a poet whom I can read on Sunday. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 90 |
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