Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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Education | Edna Lyall | Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve... |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
said her mothergave me poetry. In her mother's Shakespeare
she encountered the passage in Romeo and Juliet about Death seeking Juliet as his paramour, and she later hyperbolically described the encounter: how... |
Friends, Associates | Amelia B. Edwards | One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell
, John Greenleaf Whittier
, and Oliver Wendell Holmes
joined forces to get her invited... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Greenwell | Among DG
's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles
, Margaret Hunt
, and Sarah Tytler
. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 297-8, 429 Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press, 1950. 18-20, 22 Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, No. 1, pp. 47 -4. 50, 51 Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, No. 2, pp. 233 - 57. 240 Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press, 1984. 215 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | At the end of her life MRM
was visited by John Ruskin
and the US publisher James T. Fields
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP
enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields
(who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. 145 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Josephine Butler | The paper borrowed its title and motto from The Summons by American slavery-abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier
: The Storm-Bell rings,—the Trumpet blows; I know the word and countersign; Wherever Freedom's vanguard goes, Where stand... |
Literary responses | Lydia Maria Child | John Greenleaf Whittier
felt that this novel, together with LMC
's lives of Manon Roland
and Germaine de Staël
(first volume in The Ladies' Family Library) showed that polemical writing had not harmed her... |
Literary responses | Lydia Maria Child | The Liberator praised this work and promised to print excerpts from it. While LMC
's allies in the fight against slavery were privately astonished at her effectiveness as a polemicist, her book was credited with... |
Literary responses | Lydia Maria Child | Her friends, from whom LMC
expected support, maintained a deafening silence over this novel. It seems likely that even abolitionists were not ready for depictions of mixed marriage, of which the book has three. Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992. 281 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | The story received serious attention from the literary community: poet John Greenleaf Whittier
and author and political radical Thomas Wentworth Higginson
both wrote letters of praise. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 221 |
Textual Production | Jean Ingelow | Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier
, H. W. Longfellow. OCLC WorldCat. |
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