Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Bessie Rayner Parkes | 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. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 357 |
Cultural formation | Pauline Johnson | 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. Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre, 1981. 5 There is... |
death | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Dedications | Emma Marshall | 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. qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 125 |
Education | Una Marson | For UM
and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. qtd. in Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 11 |
Education | Edna St Vincent Millay | 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... |
Education | Tillie Olsen | 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... |
Education | Pauline Johnson | |
Education | Mary Lavin | 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... |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | 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... |
Fictionalization | Florence Nightingale | 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. Dossey, Barbara Montgomery. Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer. Springhouse Corporation, 2000. 185 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | MS
met Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Robert Browning
in Florence, and was in turn visited by Longfellow
. Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, 1815 - 1879, Roberts Brothers, 1874. 226 |
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 | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |