Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin.
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Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 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) Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin. 145 |
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 | Dora Greenwell | Among DG
's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles
, Margaret Hunt
, and Sarah Tytler
. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 297-8, 429 Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press. 18-20, 22 Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 47-74. 50, 51 Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol. 8 , No. 2, pp. 233-57. 240 Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press. 215 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Marshall | At Clifton they moved more in society. Emma acquired John Addington Symonds the elder
(father of the writer of the same name) as a sort of intellectual godfather and mentor Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 33 |
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, Roberts Brothers. 226 |
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. 185 |
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... |
Education | Una Marson | For UM
and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press. 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
. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 8 |
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. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 125 |
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