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under Bryan Waller Procter
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Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's father, Bryan Waller Procter
, was a successful London barrister. As Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy (from 1832 to 1861) Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Bryan Waller Procter |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | At the same time that LCL
had related to Sydney Morgan the episode of the page and the fireworks, she had said that she was going to be punished eventually for her cumulative misdeeds by... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | Thomas Mulock was a poet, essayist, and pamphleteer who published throughout his life. As a young man he wrote articles for the Sun which impressed William Jerdan
, and he soon also began producing pamphlets... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
made a strange and inconsistent attempt to elope with Byron
; she dressed as a page-boy with an overcoat covering her disguise, and apparently surprised him when she turned up. The project was not... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
Fictionalization | Anna Miller | |
Fictionalization | Robert Southey | Byron
responded brilliantly in 1822 with The Vision of Judgment, which trounces the king and Southey with him. |
Friends, Associates | Grace Elliott | She had renewed her acquaintance with the prince
, according to the account in notes to her published journal. Elliott, Grace. Journal of My Life during the French Revolution. Rodale Press. 150-1 |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | Literary tourists like Byron
visited her there. Dow, Gillian. “Places of our own: In search of literary treasure”. Mslexia, Vol. 39 , No. 2, pp. 8-11. 9 |
Friends, Associates | Germaine de Staël | In Regency England GS
met Coleridge
, Southey
, and Byron
. Jane Austen
, however, made a point of avoiding her. Winegarten, Renee. Mme de Staël. Berg. 74, 76 |
Friends, Associates | Cecil Frances Alexander | The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Friends, Associates | Harriette Wilson | She also made male friends who treated her as an intellectual equal (this list overlaps with that of her lovers). She corresponded with Henry Brougham
and with Byron
. Brougham, the liberal lawyer—anti-abolitionist, pro- |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Hutton | CH
's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney
and Robert Bage
, publisher Sir Richard Phillips
, Elizabeth Arnold
(whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay
, but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Moore | TM
had a talent for beginning friendships under bizarre circumstances. Francis Jeffrey
's review of Moore's anti-American Epistles, Odes, and other Poems (1806) sparked a famous (short-lived) feud between the two men. Jeffrey's negative review... |
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