Though ML
was herself childless, she and Charles virtually adopted Emma Isola
(later Emma Moxon, wife of the publisher Edward Moxon
) after the death of her father in 1823, when Mary was nearly sixty...
Literary responses
Georgiana Fullerton
GF
's mother, Lady Granville
, is said to have regretted that Ellen Middleton was quite so mournful. But contemporary reviewers were generally positive, and the novel proved popular. William Ewart Gladstone
, reviewing it...
Occupation
Robert Browning
RB
began his literary career as a poet inauspiciously with Pauline (1833), but with Paracelsus (1835) began to achieve some critical success. He entered literary society under the patronage of W. J. Fox
, and...
Occupation
Elizabeth Siddal
She produced a compelling vision of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott. Rossetti tried to have her work included in an edition of Tennyson's poems for which Edward Moxon
commissioned illustrations from members of the...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
After a skirmish with Dilke
over whether the Athenæum could claim copyright on the letters, HM
, who had accepted no payment from him, published them in book form with Moxon
.
RB
's Introductory Essay on Shelley
appeared in Edward Moxon
's edition of Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Day, Aidan, and Robert Browning. “Introduction, Critical Commentary, and Editorial Materials”. Robert Browning: Selected Poetry and Prose, Routledge, 1991, pp. 1 - 21, 151.
230
Browning, Robert. Robert Browning’s Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism. Editor Loucks, James F., W. W. Norton, 1979.
vii
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1269 (21 January 1852): 214-5
Timeline
August 1830: Edward Moxon's publishing firm in London...
Writing climate item
August 1830
Edward Moxon
's publishing firm in London published as its first book Charles Lamb
's Album Verses.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 106. Gale Research, 1991.