Connections
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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... |
Health | Mary Lamb | One of Mary Lamb
's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge
and theWordsworths
. Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols. 2: 195-6, 195n4 Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 263 |
Health | Sara Coleridge | SC
had begun to experiment with opium (like her father
), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression. qtd. in Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 37 |
Instructor | Mary Shelley | MS
and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge
's lectures at the Royal Institution |
Intertextuality and Influence | F. Mabel Robinson | The title-page bears a quotation from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Love about a fiend with the appearance of an angel beautiful and bright. qtd. in Robinson, F. Mabel. The Plan of Campaign. Third edition, Methuen, 1890. title-page |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth
and Coleridge
, filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless... |
Intertextuality and Influence | James Tiptree Jr. | This story, whose title evokes the magical otherworldly ambience of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
's Kubla Khan, turns on the paradoxical meaning of the concept of home. A human boy is brought up until the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emma Robinson | ER
claims to be merely the editor here of an original source. As she tells it in the preface, while doing research for Owen Tudor she happened on some curious particulars that explained everything she... |
Intertextuality and Influence | James Tiptree Jr. | With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken
, Coleridge
, and W. H. Davies
, the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Russell Mitford | MRM
was working on this poem by July 1810. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols. 1: 91 |
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