Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
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Residence | E. M. Delafield | |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
, with William
and Mary Wordsworth
and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 2: 133-4 |
Residence | Mary Augusta Ward | She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 13 |
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 |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
and her brother William
arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney
, whose sons had become friendly with... |
Residence | Eliza Fletcher | In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF
to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410 Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2: 699 |
Residence | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth
at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records... |
Reception | Laetitia Pilkington | Wordsworth
chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem... |
Reception | Felicia Hemans | |
Reception | Vita Sackville-West | The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire
was not entirely welcome to VSW
, since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 167 |
Reception | Emily Brontë | Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, De Quincey
, and Ebenezer Elliot
. Allott, Miriam, editor. The Brontës. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 8 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press. 499 |
Reception | Caroline Norton | Between the death of Southey
, the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth
as his successor, CN
wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel
, to request the position for herself. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby. 220 |
Reception | L. E. L. | LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain
has argued, she became (with Hemans
, and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor... |
Reception | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
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