Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Friends, Associates | Anne Grant | In the spring of 1809, AG
went to Edinburgh in search of a house. Invited to her home by the Duchess of Gordon
, she met there Sir Walter Scott
. Around the same time... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999. 221-2 |
Literary responses | Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins | This work was ridiculed on its publication by Thomas De Quincey
. Feminist Companion Archive. |
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... |
Reception | Charlotte Brontë | On 4 July 1846, two anonymous reviews appeared of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell: one mildly positive by Sydney Dobell
in the Athenæum, and one enthusiastic in the Critic. Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 497-8 |
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, 1974. 8 Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994. 499 |
Reception | Hannah More | The death of such a revered character produced an instant backlash. Thomas de Quincey
(who had visited HM
unwillingly as a young man) attacked both her literary works and her character in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson
on visual... |
Travel | Sara Coleridge | In her years growing up, SC
frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth
family at Rydal Mount. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 24 |
Timeline
April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...
Writing climate item
April 1817
The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine appeared; founder William Blackwood
intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
1: 7-9, 11
University of Alberta Libraries On-line Catalogue. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
69
By July 1822: Thomas De Quincey published Confessions of...
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By July 1822
Thomas De Quincey
published Confessions of an English Opium Eater in book form, following its serialization in the London Magazine the previous year.
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
27 (1822): 554
Texts
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Taylor and Hessey, 1822.
De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press, 1985.
De Quincey, Thomas. Selections Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished, by Thomas De Quincey. J. Hogg, 1860, 14 vols.