Leigh Hunt

She found this work on illegible and sometimes unfinished manuscripts confusing and tantalising. During 1839 she had worked with Leigh Hunt to bowdlerise her husband's version of Plato 's Symposium for publishing in 1840...

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...

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

AM published The Second Person Singular, and Other Essays, a collection of twenty pieces about Italy, George Meredith , Leigh Hunt , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , and Coventry Patmore .

On 26 June 1848 she wrote to Leigh Hunt from (apparently) Lamb Street in Spitalfields. For some years her home was the house of Margaret Gillies (a successful artist, portraitist, and feminist, who lived...

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...

It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron wrote but later burned. Later editions include those of 1893 and 1969 (the former mangles...

This book sparked both sensation and controversy. It was the starting point for Blessington's friendships with Isaac D'Israeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton . Some critics were sceptical as to whether her friendship with Byron had...

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 .

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

The King and the Angel is INH 's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt 's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to...

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

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...

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.

She had contributed More Poets on the Ice on 25 February 1835 to Leigh Hunt 's short-lived London Journal. The anonymity of the series of nurse memoirs tantalized readers; it had a thousand and...