John Greenleaf Whittier

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...

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...

At the end of her life MRM was visited by John Ruskin and the US publisher James T. Fields . Her American literary connections were many: she corresponded with, and in some cases...

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...

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) and his wife...

Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler . She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Already a seasoned European traveller, FB sailed from England for two years touring the USA from the north to the southern states, and also visiting Cuba. Her writing was was highly valued in America;...