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Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
Friends, Associates | Agnes Strickland | They began to build a network of literary friends and potential supporters: Thomas Campbell
, Robert Southey
, Charles Lamb
, editor William Jerdan
, and even more helpfully women like Barbara Hofland
, Jane |
Literary responses | Agnes Strickland | Despite intense controversy over its details, the work as a whole was a great popular success. It brought AS
fame; it provided a quarry of subject-matter for historical painters; it brought begging letters (presumably written... |
Residence | G. B. Stern | Rendered homeless by a bomb on the Albany in Piccadilly, GBS
moved first to a hotel at a place she calls Bramblebury (apparently Blewbury in Berkshire), where her friend and fellow-novelist Marguerite Steen |
Textual Features | Flora Annie Steel | As usual FAS
is concerned here with the political and personal intersections of Indian and British lives. She takes a sardonic view of the impact of the policy of Anglicization inaugurated by Macaulay
's 1835... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Education | Winifred Peck | It was probably Mary A. Marzials
' anthology Gems of English Poetry which made poetry the only lesson the Knoxes disliked. Winifred felt that Hemans
's boy on the burning deck cut a poor figure... |
Literary responses | Dorothy Osborne | DO
's sister-in-law Lady Giffard
wrote that she often wished for Dorothy's love-letters to be published: I never saw any thing more extraordinary. Temple, Sir William, and Martha, Lady Giffard. The Early Essays and Romances of Sir William Temple Bt. Editor Smith, G. C. Moore, Clarendon Press. 6 |
Literary responses | Dorothy Osborne | The first printing of DO
letters in 1836 was well reviewed by Macaulay
two years after it appeared. One recent literary-critical analysis is that of James Fitzmaurice
and Martine Rey
, Letters by Women in... |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(brought by Joseph Cottle
the Bristol bookseller), Cottle, Joseph. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. Houlston and Stoneman. 54 |
Wealth and Poverty | Hannah More | HM
left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society |
Reception | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
's books sold in the USA and Canada as well as in Britain. Their readers included Mary Russell Mitford
and Thomas Babington Macaulay
. He called them absurd and his own taste for them... |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
Literary responses | Jane Marcet | Thomas Babington Macaulay
praised this work and other political economists, like Jean-Baptiste Say
, Malthus
and Ricardo
, approved it. Although at least one edition of more than a decade after the first was respectfully... |
Literary responses | Delarivier Manley | Later again there was affection, if not much respect, in Byron
's declaration that he disdain[ed] to write an Atalantis George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron,. Don Juan. Editor Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Houghton Mifflin, http://UofARutherford. 418 |