Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
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Friends, Associates | Cecil Frances Alexander | The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Howard Sigourney | On this trip LHS
added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, Samuel Rogers
, Anna Maria Hall
and her husband
, and Jane
and Thomas Carlyle |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | She met Wordsworth
and Southey
in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 240 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 23 Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 57 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
was introduced to Mary Russell Mitford
, who became a lifelong friend, by her cousin John Kenyon
; she met Wordsworth
the following day. Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton. 80-2 Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press. 3: 320 |
Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | The direction of WH
's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, and through him with William
and Dorothy Wordsworth
. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge. 11 |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The twelve-year-old Swinburne met Wordsworth
in September 1849 while he was on holiday with his family. The writer Elizabeth Sewell
was among the family party travelling that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Joanna Baillie
(a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF
, and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
met Helen Maria Williams
during her brief visit to revolutionary France. She provided an introduction to Williams for William Wordsworth
(who had in fact met or perhaps merely seen her already) before he too... |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury
, who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth
especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth
sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second... |
Friends, Associates | Annie Tinsley | She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth
. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 8 |
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