Athenæum. J. Lection.
1944 (1864): 123
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Friends, Associates | Dinah Mulock Craik | Their circle of friends included the critic and historian George Lillie Craik
, Camilla Toulmin
, John Westland Marston
, Alexander Macmillan
(the publisher), Charles Edward Mudie
(founder of Mudie's Lending Library
), and the... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | She and her brother
entertained such visitors as George Henry Lewes
, dramatist Westland Marston
, Italian exile and journalist Antonio Gallenga
, manufacturer William Edward Forster
, mechanical engineer Joseph Whitworth
, poet and... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The new edition was not as extensively reviewed as her two previous ones, and passed virtually unremarked in the United States. This was due to a piracy of Poems, 1844, which pre-empted the... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | This was reviewed for the Athenæum early the next year by John Westland Marston
, who judged the title poem the best, as well as the longest, in the volume. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1944 (1864): 123 |
Literary responses | Eliza Cook | |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Although able to point out a good deal of insight into character in this work, John Westland Marston
, reviewing it for the Athenæum, signalled with regret the faults of a poem in which... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | The Athenæum's John Westland Marston
took offence at the metre in some poems, but over all gave the collection praise: the writer has the vision which looks not only deeply into the heart, but... |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | The London Review was very positive, considering the writing the genuine utterance of a richly imaginative mind and of a very high order. qtd. in Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 28 |
Literary responses | Christina Rossetti | Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston
, reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of... |
Literary responses | Jean Ingelow | The reviewer for the Times noted that Miss Ingelow is still diffuse and has not yet learned to be brief. qtd. in Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972. 71 |
Publishing | Harriet Downing | HD
followed her first book by contributing poetry to many newspapers and magazines. Her work appeared in annuals and books of beauty, in Fraser's Magazine, The Monthly Magazine, and shorter-lived journals like John Abraham Heraud |
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