Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons.
69, 70
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Matilda Betham | As well as meeting at Llangollen with Lady Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
(who later talked with high praise of her), Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 69, 70 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | Elizabeth Gaskell
was also a visitor, friend, and neighbour. Returning one of her visits, GJ
was reportedly found sitting on the floor of Gaskell's drawing-room, reading aloud from Charles Lamb
's The Essays of Elia. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 23 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | Other more or less radical friends of EF
included Thomas Holcroft
, Anne Plumptre
, Elizabeth Benger
, Jane Porter
, Henry Crabb Robinson
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and their friend Sarah Stoddart |
Health | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
wrote in a letter from the asylum (as transcribed by Charles
): I have no bad terrifying dreams—which suggests that she had been having this kind of dream in the recent past. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 162 Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 107 |
Health | Mary Lamb | Mary Lamb
underwent another sojourn in the lunatic asylum: her brother Charles
wrote in mid-June about her being from home. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 160 |
Health | Mary Matilda Betham | MMB
had some kind of general breakdown of health whose beginning Ernest Betham dates to about 1818 (though she seems to have been well when her Vignettes: in Verse appeared this year). Robert Southey
reported... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | Charles
, she observes (echoing a published confession of his own), has no ear. For him to voice criticism of Handel
or of the gamut is ridiculous: he does not know what he is talking... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Nina Hamnett | She introduces with the words Drink is a great problem an analysis of Charles Lamb
's Confessions of a Drunkard, Hamnett, Nina. Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography. Allan Wingate. 84 |
Leisure and Society | Annabella Plumptre | Both Henry Crabb Robinson
and Charles Lamb
commented on AP
's ugly appearance. Lonsdale, Roger, editor. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. Oxford University Press. 494 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Beverly Lyon Clark
, who wrote an introduction to this book and thought extremely highly of it, argued that the neglect of it stemmed from its belonging not just to one but to several under-appreciated... |
Literary responses | Mary Lamb | Burton
writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles
's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth
's contribution to... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 |
Literary responses | Margaret Cavendish | These verse eulogies or testimonials came from distinguished persons and institutions to whom she had presented copies of her work. It circulated widely: the Dutch poet Constantijn Huygens
owned one of her books. Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press. 92 |
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