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Literary responses | Augusta Webster | This first poetic attempt was well received. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 333 |
Literary responses | Caroline Norton | The Athenæum pronounced in fairly sympathetic tones that this volume bore a pathetic and direct reference upon the position and fortunes of its writer, alluding to the bereavements enforced by inexorable laws that denied Norton... |
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 |
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 |
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 | Catherine Cookson | Cookson collaborated with Piers Dudgeon
on Catherine Cookson
Country, one in a Heinemann
series of historical photographs that had already covered the localities of Wordsworth
and Thomas Hardy
. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 297 |
Publishing | Isabella Lickbarrow | Subscribers included Wordsworth
, Southey
, and De Quincey
, all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth
suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been... |
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