Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 |
Literary responses | Emma Marshall | Longfellow
wrote to tell EM
she had the applause of youth and age for this book: that of his daughter Edith and himself. Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley. 95 |
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 |
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... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Norton | The verse narrative is written in rhyming couplets, sometimes in very regular pentameter and at others in quite irregular metre that reflects, for instance, the anguish of the speaker's musings on memory and death. Stylistically... |
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... |
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. 357 |
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... |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The high opinions of many of AP
's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson
in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who... |
Textual Production | Lydia Howard Sigourney | Illustrated Poems by LHS
, 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
. She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 73 |
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 |
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