Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
William Smith Williams
Standard Name: Williams, William Smith
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Friends, Associates | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë noted that while JK admired the work, she considered the Maniac Mrs Rochester to be shocking. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols. II: 173 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt (who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams, reader for Smith and Elder ; Robert Owen, socialist; Frank Stone... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | On 22 November 1848, Charlotte Brontë wrote to William Smith Williams (a friend of both herself and the author), I have read Madeleine. It is a fine pearl in simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This novel was not as successful as JK's earlier efforts. Charlotte Brontë confided to William Smith Williams, I have tried to read Daisy Burns; at the close of the 1st Vol. I... |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | Charlotte Brontë told Williams that she read this work with gratification and found that Kavanagh's charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful. Wise, Thomas J., editor. The Brontës. Porcupine Press, 1980, 4 vols. III: 326 |
Occupation | Emily Brontë | Charlotte's account of EB's response to her discovery of the Gondal poems, and the difficulty she had in persuading Emily to publish, suggests that Emily had no desire to become an author. Of the... |
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