Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 and began in 1851...

Longfellow wrote to tell EM she had the applause of youth and age for this book: that of his daughter Edith and himself. He also sent her an American review, which praised the novel...

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...

The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...

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...

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...

She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them. The readings were popular and lucrative. Longfellow wrote a...

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.

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...

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , wrote to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to express her appreciation for his work; she sent copies of verses she had written on him that had appeared in the Boston Pilot.

JFLW never used her first name, except for inconsequential correspondence. She was probably christened Frances (as was an elder sister who died) and later italianized it. She also developed a rich etymology for her surname...

Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier , H. W. Longfellow.

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...

EMH 's version of the already existing desert romance made the desert less a place of mystery and intrigue than a place made exclusively and particularly for sex. Her sexual explicitness caused much scandal...

Dedicating this book to Edward Seymour and his wife Elizabeth of Porthmawr, Crickhowell, CH presents the work as an attempt to illustrate the Seymour family motto, which forms the book's subtitle and is invoked...