Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt.
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Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Kemble describes AP
in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 499 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | When she returned to London, she associated with a group of friends who regularly assembled at her home, including William Makepeace Thackeray
and Alfred Tennyson
. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 34 |
Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Through the theological writer Dr Robert Herbert Brabant
(an early admirer of George Eliot), Lynn at this time met Walter Savage Landor
, whom she had long admired, and with whom she became close friends... |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton
, a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne
and Lord Monteagle
; writers William Thackeray
, Charles Dickens
, Emily Eden
, Elliot Warburton
, Alfred Tennyson |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
attended a party given by Thackeray
for Charlotte Brontë
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 211 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
criticized the party, which was also attended by Elizabeth Gaskell
, William Thackeray
, and Tom Taylor
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 204 Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 205 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Loudon | As well as horticultural and artistic friends and associates, JL
and her husband had literary friends, who included Robert Chambers
and his wife Anne
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Mary Howitt
, Julia Kavanagh
, Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Frances Sarah Hoey | In order to help establish herself, the future FSH
took with her an introduction from William Carleton
to William Thackeray
. Edwards, Peter David. Frances Cashel Hoey, 1830-1908: A Bibliography. Department of English, University of Queensland. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | But her reputation was such that even friendships were minefields: a friendly relationship with Thackeray
exposed her firstly to a direct snub from his friend, or lover, Jane Brookfield
(who refused to meet the notorious... |
Health | Adelaide Procter | AP
's health was poor from an early age. A letter from William Thackeray
describes her at the age of fourteen as vomiting basins of blood. She went to Italy for a year in 1853-54... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Sharp | The protagonist is called Becky Sharp, a name which interestingly combines a clue as to self-portraiture with homage to Thackeray
's equally intelligent though less sensitive and feeling heroine. This Becky is a child who... |
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