Samuel Carter Hall

Despite her Irish birth, she disliked and distanced herself from the Irish: Anna Maria Hall 's husband, Samuel Carter Hall , reported her saying that she needed to fumigate her dining-room after entertaining Daniel O'Connell

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

In her later years JP had endured a great deal of mockery. Samuel Carter Hall noted in his Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance that she was...

AMH , with her husband Samuel Carter Hall , published Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. in three illustrated volumes with a dedication to Prince Albert .

Her name, Maria Louisa , is inscribed on the monument Samuel Carter Hall erected in memory of his father at Kensal Green, London.

CB was too old to have children with Robert Southey , and the children of his first marriage were not disposed to welcome her warmly. Virginia Blain speculates that their marriage was not consummated. Southey's...

Anna Maria Fielding married journalist and editor Samuel Carter Hall , who was her mentor in publication and who was even more prolific than she was.

MO and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall , Anna Maria Hall , Dinah Mulock (later Craik) , and Mary Howitt .

Samuel Carter Hall recalled that she was not handsome, though with a very gentle manner and gracious countenance; a lovable, because a good, woman.

Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L. , John Murray , Owen Rees , and Anna Maria Hall

MADH moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall and Anna Maria Hall

FB's lifelong friendship with Per Böklin survived her refusal of his hand and his marriage to someone else. The influence he had on her thinking was shared by Stina, Countess Sommerhielm , and the academic...

Dinah Mulock met several notable literary figures, such as the dramatists George and Maria Lovell , poet Eliza Leslie , and Mr and Mrs Samuel Carter Hall . At parties given by Anna Maria Hall...

Those they met there included the literary couples Samuel and Anna Hall , and Alaric and Zillah Watts (the latter couple's eldest son eventually married the Howitts' elder daughter, Anna Mary.) Once they were...

During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...