Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 337
Alaric Watts
Standard Name: Watts, Alaric
Used Form: Alaric Alfred Watts
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Caroline Bowles | CB
's children's story The Little Brook and the Star was included in Alaric Watts
's Literary Souvenir. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Watts | The poet and Leicester celebrity Alaric Watts
was her nephew. Simmons, Jack, and Susanna Watts. “Introduction”. A Walk through Leicester, Leicester University Press, 1967, p. vii - xiii. viii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Mary Howitt | Anna Mary Howitt
married Alaric Alfred Watts
(1825-1901, great-nephew of writer Susanna Watts
); his courtship was of long standing and apparently little encouraged at first. Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 225 Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. 163, 218 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | At the same period EOB
was a friend of another miscellaneous writer, Elizabeth Isabella Spence
, who entertained in the same eccentric, low-budget style. These two elderly ladies (Spence was ten years older than Benger)... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Those they met there included the literary couples Samuel
and Anna Hall
, and Alaric
and Zillah Watts
(the latter couple's eldest son eventually married the Howitts' elder daughter, Anna Mary.) Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 25-6 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The editor of the Manchester Courier, Alaric Watts
, encouraged her to compile a volume of her writing and persuaded Hurst and Robinson
to publish the result, this book. She received £100 for Phantasmagoria... |
| Leisure and Society | Felicia Hemans | The marble bust of Hemans by Fletcher
, praised for its likeness, was done during this first Scottish trip. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 201 |
| Textual Production | Mary Shelley | MS
volunteered to Alaric Watts
, editor of the Literary Souvenir, to write for his journal. Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 413-24. 416, 423n16 |
| Textual Production | Anna Mary Howitt | Anna Mary Howitt (now Watts)
published, jointly with her husband, Alaric Alfred Watts
, Aurora, A Volume of Verse. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography mistakenly dates this volume (in 2007) 1884. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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Texts
Watts, Alaric, and Anna Mary Howitt. Aurora. King, 1875.