Thomas Moore

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...

After years of rejections, BP succeeded in publishing her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, with Jonathan Cape .

At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving

MS engaged in June 1827 to help Thomas Moore as a silent but major contributor to his life of Byron, which appeared in January 1830 in the first volume of Byron's Letters and Journals.

She also reviewed works by Caroline Norton , Thomas Moore , and James Fenimore Cooper .

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Her father did not allow novels in...

While working for the Featherstones, Sydney Owenson met Thomas Moore at a party given above his parents' grocery shop in Aungier Street, Dublin. She gained access to Ireland's bluestocking circle through Alicia or Alice Lefanu

While in Italy, she met with Volta (who invented the voltaic battery) in Milan, and had dinner with the Countess of Albany , widow of Bonnie Prince Charlie (who had left him after eight years...

These provided the pattern for Thomas Moore 's very fashionable Irish Melodies. Either Moore's or possibly Morgan's are provided by Frank Churchill for Jane Fairfax along with the famous piano in Austen 's Mansfield Park.

This splendidly excessive tale was elaborately summarised by the Critical Review. It had the nerve to complain at the end that Owenson ought to write in a more simple and natural manner,

Following her well-publicised battles first with Colburn and then with Saunders and Otley , Morgan got Thomas Moore to sound out John Murray about taking her on. She had a plan to follow her Life...

Before she left London, MT met there her fellow Irish poet Tom Moore . He subsequently visited her in Dublin and complimented her in verse. She exchanged poems with Barbarina Wilmot (later Lady Dacre) ...

MT set her face against open publication, partly because of the reviewers' ostentatious moral panic over mildly erotic poems by Thomas Moore , and over ladies associated with him (as she was by virtue of...