Oliver Wendell Holmes

SG continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black writes that SG particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. But her...

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

Their friends at this period of their lives included song-writer Alexander Anderson , social reformers Patrick Geddes and his wife , and theologian Robert Flint (who introduced them to Oliver Wendell Holmes ). They knew...

Two hundred people celebrated HBS 's seventy-first birthday, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and William Dean Howells .

HBS developed a friendship with Oliver Wendell Holmes . She also gained notoriety by supporting a young writer named Anna Dickinson who caused a sensation by writing a novel which defended interracial marriage. This led...

Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields (who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) and his wife...

One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Oliver Wendell Holmes joined forces to get her invited...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...

In 1872 AL met John Paine , a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts...

She also knew Frances Power Cobbe , Vernon Lee , Florence Fenwick Miller , and Mabel Robinson (likely, too, her sister A. Mary F. Robinson , who also wrote for the Athenæum at the same...

At the end of her life MRM was visited by John Ruskin and the US publisher James T. Fields . Her American literary connections were many: she corresponded with, and in some cases...

When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy. Davis's publisher...

The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would...

Holmes claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration. In their introduction to the 1998 edition, scholars Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood