Connections
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Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | Within a few months of his death, Coleridge
wrote into a copy of his own poems, beside This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Ch. And Mary Lamb—dear to my heart, yea, as it were my... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | EF
was well known to many of the English radicals of the 1790s: besides those already mentioned, she knew Charlotte Smith
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Paul, Lissa. Eliza Fenwick, Early Modern Feminist. University of Delaware Press, 2019. 72 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | CS
knew Samuel Taylor Coleridge
well enough to entertain him at her house, although he had already written parodies of her sonnet style. Raycroft, Brent. “From Charlotte Smith to Nehemiah Higginbottom: Revising the Genealogy of the Early Romantic Sonnet”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, 1 June 1998– 2024, pp. 363-92. 388n1 |
Friends, Associates | William Wordsworth | WW
first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge
this month, somewhere in London, though witnesses differ as to exactly where and how. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols. 1: 270-1 |
Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | Other friends included the Hon. Judith Milbanke
(whose daughter became Lady Byron
), Lady Byron herself (whom Baillie strongly supported during the long-drawn-out unpleasantness of her marriage), Henry Reeve
, William Sotheby
, William Harness |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
was a very social person who made friends wherever she went. A visit in 1826 to the Frere family at Hampstead allowed her to meet several interesting characters: the poet Samuel Coleridge
, the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG
from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and William Wordsworth
. His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press, 1985. viii |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
walked forty miles in order to meet ALB
and her husband
. He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 399-400 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. 11 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She once took her friend and ex-teacher Frances Arabella Rowden
to hear Coleridge
lecture, and sat on tenterhooks as he belittled certain popular poems and seemed about to include one of Rowden's. Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62. 58 |
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