Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor John, first Earl Russell, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Hervey | Tom Moore
's comments on EH
include hearsay comment on her grotto. Moore, Thomas. Memoirs, Journal and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Editor John, first Earl Russell, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 2: 197-8 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Hervey | EH
's probably full social life has left few traces. She is mentioned twice among Mary Berry
's circle in 1791, and Berry paid her the oblique compliment of calling her Mrs. Pompoustown Hervey after... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc
, was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo
, and the author of a life of Byron
(for which Stendhal
supplied... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | A few years later, as a published author, MRM
became friendly with James Perry
(editor of the Morning Chronicle). At his house she met a number of eminent men: politicians Lord Brougham
and Lord Erskine |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Montagu | The term bluestocking very quickly came to imply dismissiveness, if not actual disapproval and contempt. The first to use it pejoratively may well have been, as Gary Kelly
has suggested, those who felt threatened or... |
Education | Celia Moss | Little is known of CM
's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky
(who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father... |
Education | Marion Moss | Little is known is about MM
's formal education. However, according to critic Michael Galchinsky
, her father entertained the family by reading romantic poetry as the women sat and sewed, including Byron
's Childe... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | Before her marriage CN
had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore
, once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley... |
Textual Features | Caroline Norton | The Rebel, spoken by an imprisoned Irish harper who weep[s,] to think upon my country's chain, suggests both a sympathy with the cause of Ireland and the influence of CN
's friend Thomas Moore |
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