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Literary responses | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | CMS
received considerable critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime: Nathaniel Hawthorne
described her as our most truthful novelist, Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne. 137 |
Literary responses | Sarah Orne Jewett | Willa Cather
, in her preface to a collection of SOJ
's Best Stories (1925), reflected a common critical perception in suggesting that Jewett would go down in literary history as a regional writer: the... |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson
's and Eve LaPlante
's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin
, 2009; a study... |
Literary responses | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Hawthorne
said that he found the heroine noble. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Leisure and Society | Isa Blagden | IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Angela Carter | Carter attributes the idea for Love to Benjamin Constant
's nineteenth-century novel Adolphe. Linden Peach also notes intertextual references to Edgar Allan Poe
's poem Annabel Lee, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
's novel The Scarlet Letter. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 59, 62-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vernon Lee | By this date, according to Julia Briggs
, she had already fallen under the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne
's The Marble Faun, 1860, (an influence she shared with Henry James
). Briggs, Julia. Night Visitors. Faber. 113, 119 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Health | Harriet Martineau | Nathaniel Hawthorne
, who visited her in later years, described her as the most continual talker I ever heard; it is really like the babbling of a brook, and very lively and sensible too; and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | At the end of her life MRM
was visited by John Ruskin
and the US publisher James T. Fields
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 116: 197 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | MF
's circle of friends and associates included many of the of the pre-eminent thinkers and writers of her day. She maintained a vision of friendship that demanded total loyalty and sought integrity, sensitivity, and... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton
, and Charles Kingsley
(all of... |
Friends, Associates | Camilla Crosland | CC
's friends and acquaintances were varying and numerous. In her youth the radical politician John Cartwright
was a neighbour. Her literary work as an adult led to the formation of a number of lasting... |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In the USA HM
became a good friend of Margaret Fuller
, although differences developed between them after Martineau published Society in America, which she saw as objecting to Fuller's gorgeous pedantry and disregard... |
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