Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of MK 's sixteen novels, Together and Apart is the one most firmly set in the novelist's own time period. The female protagonist, Betsy Canning, like Agatha of The Ladies of Lyndon, feels her...

She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting ) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton (who was kept locked away)...

EJ attended Oxford High School . It was while a thirteen-year-old pupil there, she later said, that she discovered the excitement of poetry: first The Battle of Lepanto by G. K. Chesterton , then The...

Robert Jameson also became the first Speaker of the Legislature after the union of Upper and Lower Canada. A childhood friend of Hartley Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's son), he had been introduced to...

Characteristics of Women was well received as a work of Shakespeare criticism: reviewers and literary critics placed it alongside the work of Hazlitt , Coleridge , and Schlegel .

Kathleen E. Royds (later Innes) published Coleridge and his Poetry, a bio-critical analysis, in the Poetry and Life Series edited by William Henry Hudson .

LH 's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth

Its contents, most or all previously published in annuals and periodicals, include ballads in various styles. The Lady Magdalene exemplifies the medieval and nostalgic: Lady Magdalene, a child, remains sole survivor except for one or...

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Although his...

The volume takes its epigraphs and historical starting-points from a wide range of sources, including major male Romantics—Wordsworth , Byron , Coleridge , Goethe , Schiller —and lesser-known contemporaries including women—Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger

FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...

The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald , Anna Letitia Barbauld , and Charles