MA
's parents were cousins. Her great-grandfather was born outside marriage, the eldest of a stable, illegitimate second family. There was no connection with the nineteenth-century Irish poet William Allingham
.
Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988.
33-4
Friends, Associates
Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with...
William Allingham
met Ouida
at a Langham Hotel
dinner, provoking the oft-recited sketch of her as dressed in green silk, with a sinister clever face, her hair down, small hands and feet, and a voice...
Intertextuality and Influence
Katharine Tynan
Yeats
felt that no one could do it [the volume] so well as you,
qtd. in
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
Tynan, Katharine. The Middle Years. Constable, 1916.
68-9
Occupation
Elizabeth Siddal
ES
was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham
; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth
, Scott
, Tennyson
, and Browning
.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
66
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
152-3, 173
Hudson, Derek, and Arthur Joseph Munby. Munby, Man of Two Worlds. J. Murray, 1972.
218
By 16 April 1864: William Allingham published Laurence Bloomfield...
Writing climate item
By 16 April 1864
William Allingham
published Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland. A Modern Poem.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1903 (1864): 537
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
1870: Artist Richard Doyle published, with a poem...
Writing climate item
1870
Artist Richard Doyle
published, with a poem by William Allingham
, a collection of exquisitely detailed and coloured plates called In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World.
Doyle, Richard, and William Allingham. In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870.
prelims
Texts
Doyle, Richard, and William Allingham. In Fairyland: A Series of Pictures from the Elf-World. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870.
Allingham, William. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland. Macmillan, 1864.