Washington Irving

MS turned down a marriage proposal from actor-manager John Payne , a friend of Washington Irving .

MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving

While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette , who had fought during the French Revolution.FT reportedly made an excellent...

Though Sara Josepha Hale , author of Woman's Record, called Houstoun a lively, fluent writer, this is the first and last compliment offered in a review which is kept brief because even the...

FK made her Washington debut, playing to an audience that included John Quincy Adams and Washington Irving .

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

She had met Caldecott in June 1879, when she already warmly admired his illustrations for works by Washington Irving . She specifically asked him for a picture of a fair-haired boy riding a red-haired pony...

A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington ) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery...

Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...

GA 's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott , and by historians including Americans Washington Irving and William H. Prescott .

IH 's other translations are Chateaubriand 's The Last of the Abencerages (included, with her name, in the Standard Novels edition of Washington Irving 's Tales of the Alhambra, 1835); the same author's Sketches...

She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton and William Cowper (as edited by Robert Southey ), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on...

Before leaving New York for Toronto, ABJ met Washington Irving and John Jacob Astor .