Isaac D'Israeli

ES dedicated to Isaac D'Israeli (as an advocate for the poor and meritorious) her Triumphs of Genius and Perseverance; exemplified in the Histories of Persons risen from poverty to eminence in the Arts and Sciences.

His father, Isaac D'Israeli or Disraeli , was a historical and literary antiquarian whose writings helped to shape the opinions of later generations about seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British culture.

It was John Lane and Roger Fry who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...

EAP met Mary Russell Mitford in summer 1822 at the London house of Mrs Vardill: presumably the mother of the Romantic poet Anna Jane Vardill . Vardill was a friend and associate from...

CG was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton to which Disraeli , Lady Morgan , and Letitia Landon also...

From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon , Isaac D'Israeli , Edward Bulwer-Lytton , and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli (who visited England...

She was capable of equally strong feeling in other contexts, such as her passionate desire for success as a poet. Having written about this ambition to the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and the philosopher Dugald Stewart

A story printed in the Gentleman's Magazine in her lifetime, and repeated in print by Isaac D'Israeli after her death, said that she was excluded from the Museum for damaging books (or alternatively for removing...

Even before her first publication the future CC had sent specimens of her poetry, under the name of George Ferrol or P. Ferrol, to literary men and potential patrons. But Isaac D'Israeli , Dugald Stewart

It was issued by Cadell and Davies , with title-page reference to The Step-Mother and a quotation from Akenside on virtue as a source of happiness. HW 's preface, composed while living in Westminster...

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

The essays include Samuel Pepys and Francis Bacon , Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, A Curiosity of Literature not Mentioned by Isaac Disraeli and Servants. The first, despite its title, is...

The preface to this work apologizes for not apologizing: The greatness of an enterprize, while it increases the diffidence of an Author, almost destroys the right of apology. If . . . I have ventured...

In 1823 and 1827 respectively, CC approached the literary historian Isaac D'Israeli and the philosopher Dugald Stewart about her burning desire to be a poet. D'Israeli (to whom she had used a masculine pseudonym) replied...