Edward Hayes Plumptre

Standard Name: Plumptre, Edward Hayes
Used Form: E. H. Plumptre

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Sarah Williams
Her family belonged to the class of wealthy London citizens, but her father was Welsh by descent. SW saw this background as the source of the bardic element in her.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 179
Her parents were...
Family and Intimate relationships C. E. Plumptre
Her uncle Edward Hayes Plumptre , Dean of Wells, a well-known writer and translator of scholarly and poetic religious works, was active in promoting the higher education of women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Instructor Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
Henrietta Euphemia had what was called a desultory education. Nevertheless, living in the country with a fine library, she learned French and Italian and read widely, even eccentrically, in the poetry and history of both...
Literary responses Sarah Williams
Plumptre likens SW to the essayist Elia, that is, to Charles Lamb .
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
xiii
Among those who admired her work were the Reverend F. D. Maurice and the Scottish author Henrietta Keddie (who wrote...
Textual Production Sarah Williams
A volume of SW 's poems was edited and published after her death by E. H. Plumptre (who had taught her) as Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse.
Plumptre dated his memoir of her...
Textual Production Sarah Williams
Nearly two years before she died, SW sent a copy of her recently published Rainbows in Springtide to her former teacher E. H. Plumptre .
Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
vii, xii

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Plumptre, Edward Hayes, and Sarah Williams. “Memoir”. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse, Strahan, 1868, p. vii - xxxiii.
Williams, Sarah, and Edward Hayes Plumptre. Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse. Strahan, 1868.