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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | Henry Crabb Robinson
, visiting LA
with Charles
and Mary Lamb
, reported Aikin as admiring both the wit and the fine face of Lamb. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 34 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her biographer William McCarthy, speculating on causes for this reversal of former admiration, mentions Coleridge's painful feelings for his mother and his wife, his leaving the Dissenters for the Church of England, and the predominance... |
Violence | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Reception | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
's name became almost synonymous with didactic writing for children. Indefensibly, it also became in time synonymous with active repression of children's imagination. Charles Lamb
wrote indignantly of the cursed Barbauld crew, those blights... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | ALB
was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Having already praised many contemporary women writers in print, EOB
was now able to meet them. The move to London was accomplished principally through the zealous friendship of Miss Sarah Wesley
, who had already... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | Around 1801-2, Charles
and Mary Lamb
were said to have succeeded in talking [George Dyer
] into love with EOB
, but to have been unsuccessful in talking her into love with him. This... |
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 |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Matilda Betham | She applied to the Royal Literary Fund
for assistance because of her poverty. Her application said she was paying five shillings a week in rent, and could reduce that to two shillings if she was... |
Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | In 1833 Charles Lamb
wrote that MMBhad the most feminine soul of all our poet- and prose-esses. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 233 |
Textual Production | Mary Matilda Betham | The work she refers to as her source is Gervais de La Rue
's Dissertation on the Life and Writings of Mary, an Anglo-Norman Poetess of the 13th century, translated into English under the... |
Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | Charles Lamb
pronounced MMB
's poem (before publication) to be very delicately pretty as to sentiment, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 156 |
Literary responses | Mary Matilda Betham | It appears that late in life she showed Charles Lamb
a collection of her letters to her family. He praised them as a widow's cruise: that is, an inexhaustible supply of riches from a... |