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Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885. 73 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | His father, Peter George Patmore
, was a writer and journalist. He edited The New Monthly Magazine from 1841 to 1853, and counted among his friends William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Richard Monckton Milnes |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | While in London, TC
socialized with John Stuart Mill
, Mary
and Charles Lamb
, Henry Taylor
, Sarah Austin
and Leigh Hunt
. |
Friends, Associates | Charles Cowden Clarke | CCC
was an important early friend of John Keats
. He also formed friendships with Leigh Hunt
, Douglas Jerrold
, Charles
and Mary Lamb
, and Charles Dickens
. Most of these friendships were... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | In addition to meeting Dickens
as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC
and her husband met William Hazlitt
through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt
, and... |
Friends, Associates | John Forster | JF
was well connected in literary circles. He counted Elizabeth Gaskell
, Lady Blessington
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, Charles Dickens
, Edward Bulwer Lytton
and Leigh Hunt
among his intimates. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985. |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | John Keats | Keats was taught and was influenced as a young man by Charles Cowden Clarke
. Another important literary friendship was that with Leigh Hunt
, then Percy
and Mary Shelley
and William Hazlitt
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Mary... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Despite her ill health, the couple entertained regularly. Their guests included John Stuart Mill
, Henry Taylor
, and Leigh Hunt
. JWC
became especially fond of Hunt and Mill. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell, 1986. 100-1 |
Literary responses | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
appears to have contended with a reputation as a bluestocking. In Our Wild Flowers she notes: I am especially anxious to root out the idea that if people be clever, they may be untidy... |
Literary responses | Catherine Gore | CG
, identified during her lifetime with satire on the upper classes, was depicted by P. G. Patmore
in Chatsworth; or, The Romance of a Week, 1844, Lady Bab Brilliant, who publicly lashed... |
Literary responses | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli
and Edward Bulwer-Lytton
. Feldman, Paula R., editor. British Women Poets of the Romantic Era. John Hopkins University Press, 1997. 149 |
Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | At the request of James T. Fields
she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 149 |