Oliver Wendell Holmes

After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...

During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...

During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

HBS spent some years writing journalism and children's stories after the publication of Agnes of Sorrento. Then, after settling in a winter home in Florida, she resumed a romance she had begun some...

According to scholars, the first edition of this collection is extremely rare. The second and much expanded edition, published in 1888, tells us that the first edition perished, together with several other of her works...

Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...

This novel has aroused recent critical discussion. Robert T. Eldridge discussed it in The New York Review of Science Fiction in February 1998 under the title The Other Vampire Novel of 1897, and Brenda Mann Hammack

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

FHB 's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement. Fauntleroy was, says...

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...

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...

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...

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...