Samuel Rogers

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...

The young Samuel Rogers sent enthusiastic praise; he said he found ALB 's style easily recognisable. The Monthly Review and Analytical Review were equally laudatory, while, predictably, conservative voices expressed disgust. A country clergyman sent...

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...

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 . Then or later...

Her friends at this period of her life included the diarist and letter-writer Caroline Fox (with whom her relationship was very close),

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 . The...

GC apparently suffered from hearing difficulties, though the extent of her condition is not known. Samuel Rogers suggested that GC 's good nature was in large part owing to her deafness, for that nobody ventured...

She dedicated the new novel to the Countess of Euston (wife of the future fourth Duke of Grafton; she died while he still held the junior title and had not yet succeeded to the dukedom)...

Subscribers included Anna Letitia Barbauld and her brother , Ann Jebb , the future Amelia Opie , Anna Maria Porter , Mary Wollstonecraft and her sister, Mary Hays and her sister, a Mrs Spence who...

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...

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...

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...

Her later poetic endeavours included the publication of Miscellaneous Poems in 1812, a collection printed privately at Windsor which included poems by ECK , William Robert Spencer , Samuel Rogers , and others.

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.

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...