Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
John Wordsworth
Standard Name: Wordsworth, John,, Bishop of Salisbury
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anne Mozley | The first of AM
's publications (all her works were anonymous, and were first identified as hers in the memoir by Bishop John Wordsworth
) appeared this year: an anthology entitled Passages from the Poets. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. ix |
Friends, Associates | Anne Mozley | Since Tom had gone up to Oxford
as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. viii |
Occupation | Anne Mozley | Besides domestic work (such as housekeeping for her brother Thomas), AM
was a pioneer in designing and embroidering church vestments from medieval patterns found in the work of Augustus Pugin
, long before this became... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Mozley | Bishop John Wordsworth
wrote in his posthumous memoir of AM
that no one out of her own family circle knew or even suspected that she practised authorship and editing work as an occupation. When she... |
Textual Production | Anne Mozley | AM
readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley
, Professor of Theology at Oxford
. She is remembered as the posthumous editor of... |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | John Wordsworth
says the titles that AM
gave her brother's sermons were evidences of her power and insight, Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. xvii |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | John Wordsworth
calls this book wonderful for its sympathy and its fidelity; wonderful for its reserve and its unreserve; wonderful for its grasp of detail and its breadth of good sense. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. xix |
Textual Features | Anne Mozley | John Wordsworth
later singled out AM
's article on Thomas Gray
(published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which... |
Reception | Anne Mozley | George Eliot
not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's
expressly so that it... |
Textual Production | Anne Mozley | This collection incorporates a memoir by John Wordsworth
, Bishop of Salisbury. |
Literary responses | Anne Mozley | John Wordsworth
warmly praised AM
's writing in general as combining an almost manly vigour with feminine sweetness and refinement. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. xx |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
responded to a lecture by the Rev. John Wordsworth
with an anonymous pamphlet, Unbelief and Sin: A Protest Addressed to Those Who Attended the Bampton Lecture of Sunday, March 6. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth
(nephew of the poet
), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her... |
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Texts
Mozley, Anne, and John Wordsworth. Essays from "Blackwood". Editor Mozley, F., W. Blackwood and Sons, 1892.
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.