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death | George Gordon sixth Baron Byron | His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister
wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted... |
Dedications | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Illustrated Poems by LHS
, 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
. She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 73 |
Dedications | Louisa Anne Meredith | This book began a fruitful partnership with London publisher Charles Tilt
. It comprises about forty poems and songs and six copperplate etchings, her first attempts. Meredith, Louisa Anne. Poems. Charles Tilt, 1835. prelims |
Education | Harriet Hamilton King | From an early age, she demonstrated an eagerness to learn and to read. When she was eleven years old, Harriet read Italy, A Poem by Samuel Rogers
. Between the ages fourteen and seventeen, she... |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Howard Sigourney | On this trip LHS
added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, Samuel Rogers
, Anna Maria Hall
and her husband
, and Jane
and Thomas Carlyle |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Joanna Baillie
, who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB
's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers
, Madame D'Arblay
, Eliza Fletcher
(who first visited... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Bryan | MB
approached Sir Walter Scott
on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937. 153-4, 166 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Riddell | In England as in Scotland MR
had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence
and Henry Fuseli
and the writers Samuel Rogers
, Richard Sharp
, and Sir James Mackintosh
... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox
(with whom her relationship was very close), This is the Hon. Caroline Fox (1767-1845), not to be confused with the... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Because her husband
, like her father
, was well-connected, MCH
was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam
, Samuel Rogers
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork
and writers Joanna Baillie
, William Wordsworth
, and Samuel Rogers
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2640 (1878): 693 Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 34, 76 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 323-6 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton |
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