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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | While in London, TC
socialized with John Stuart Mill
, Mary
and Charles Lamb
, Henry Taylor
, Sarah Austin
and Leigh Hunt
. |
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 |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
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... |
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 |
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 | Dorothy Whipple | DW
's mother and siblings cried over the text of her childhood autobiography, remembering old days. Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph. 71 |
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... |
Literary responses | Sarah Williams | Plumptre
likens SW
to the essayist Elia, that is, to Charles Lamb
. Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, p. vii - xxxiii. xiii |
Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village was praised by Christopher North (John Wilson)
, Felicia Hemans
, Elizabeth Barrett
(who called Mitford here a sort of prose Crabbe
in the sun Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
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