Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the spring of 1877 Longfellow wrote to ask Bessie Rayner Belloc (formerly Parkes) if he might include some of her work in his multi-volume Poems of Places, whose publication had already begun.

As the daughter of an English mother and a Mohawk father, PJ was attentive to issues of her dual heritage; by Canadian law she was deemed Indian. She identified herself as Mohawk.

A telegram asking a physician to sever her arteries after death was found by her bed. According to a family story, her great-grandmother had fallen into a coma and almost been buried alive. She was...

She at first planned to call this book Rachel. She dedicated it to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , in grateful remembrance of all I owe to him as Poet and Friend. The new title...

PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...

The young ML had as strong an enjoyment of company as of solitude, and enjoyed the school she went to in Massachusetts. Nevertheless at this stage she was her own most important teacher. Her parents...

At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck

For UM and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. By the time she began formal schooling at the age of ten, Una had read and memorized much of...

ESVM said her mothergave me poetry. In her mother's Shakespeare she encountered the passage in Romeo and Juliet about Death seeking Juliet as his paramour, and she later hyperbolically described the encounter: how...

TO was enrolled in first grade in Omaha,Nebraska, in January 1917, only three days after her elder sister. She also attended Socialist Sunday School, where she learned to revere American democracy and the history...

The intense relationship between MH and Cushman is the subject of considerable debate over whether it constituted a lesbian union. After meeting the pair, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote in a letter to a friend, I...

Her work in the war won her praise. Longfellow 's poem Santa Filomena appeared in the inaugural issue of the Atlantic Monthly in November 1857. It paid tribute to, and mythologized, FN 's efforts in the Crimea.

Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields (who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) and his wife...

Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler . She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott

In 1872 AL met John Paine , a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts...