Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd

AR belonged to the English middle class. It seems that her first biographer, Thomas Talfourd , was embarrassed by her father's shopkeeping occupation, as being of low social status.

The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey , William Hazlitt , and Thomas De Quincey . In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin , Thomas Manning

A few years later, as a published author, MRM became friendly with James Perry (editor of the Morning Chronicle). At his house she met a number of eminent men: politicians Lord Brougham and Lord Erskine

CN found solace and political support in other friendships. Lawyer Abraham Hayward and MP Thomas Noon Talfourd became her allies in her attempts to change the law on custody of children, and gossip soon alleged...

Another followed an upsetting review of Charles's Specimens in the Quarterly in February 1812, another on her completing her own On Needle-Work in December 1814-February 1815, and another, unusually, only six months later.

Rictor Norton believes that AR may have suffered a nervous breakdown in 1803, after finishing Gaston de Blondeville, and another in late 1812, after the publishing of Anna Seward 's letters alleging that she...

She began writing tragedies (after seeing Macready on stage) before her father's financial losses compelled her to take up less prestigious but potentially better-paying genres as well. She was encouraged by Thomas Noon Talfourd ...

Macready praised the play, but then undermined the value of his own praise, calling it a wonderful tragedy—an extraordinary tragedy for a woman to have written. Its popularity in London was such as to...

Talfourd , she said, thought it good.

The pamphlet was not well received: the public appeared to be suffering from compassion fatigue. In opposing CN 's plan of writing to the Times, Melbourne called her a sobbing, moaning, and complaining woman...

Many reviewers wrongly supposed that Gaston de Blondeville was derivative from Scott 's recent and very successful Kenilworth, which uses the same material.Talfourd , who called it a ghost story, judged it...

Later in 1830, when she acted Calista in Nicholas Rowe 's The Fair Penitent, Thomas Noon Talfourd told Mary Russell Mitfordthat, at a distance from the stage, he could almost have imagined her...

Thomas Noon Talfourd gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN 's husband relented and allowed her to see...

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

The editor of this second selection of Mitford's letters was Henry Chorley . Her Correspondence with Charles Boner and John Ruskin followed in 1914. R. Brimley Johnson published another selection of her letters in 1925...