Thomas Moore

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...

Since she was well-connected in London literary circles, she was able to include in her memoir recollections of time spent working with the annuals and of literary figures such as Grace Aguilar , Lady Blessington

Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...

Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton , a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle ; writers William Thackeray , Charles Dickens , Emily Eden , Elliot Warburton , Alfred Tennyson

Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright , whose guests included Dr Wollaston and the science-writers Jane Marcet and Mary Somerville ...

In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...

EF kept up her talent for pastiche. In 1915 she produced versions of It's a long way to Tipperary in the respectives styles of Whitman , Burns , Rossetti , Herrick , Swinburne , and Tom Moore .

This approach to the newly-restored monarch was a vital tactical move for the Quakers, who had been persecuted in the last years of the Interregnum. George Fox was still in prison; MF went to London...

His body was brought back to England (contrary to his expressed wishes), where dissension arose over his funeral. His sister wanted it to be private and aristocratic, while public opinion (though not the establishment) wanted...

SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...

AG and her sisters received little formal education; their lessons took second place to their brothers'. Under her evangelical mother's strict supervision, they were taught by a succession of governesses and tutors, who...

Copies of Thomas Moore 's Odes of Anacreon (first published in 1800) were issued with a single-sheet printing of The Art of Printing (a poem ascribed to CG ) laid in.

Among the many officers visiting the Ham family at Ardnaree was Napier , later the author of the History of the Peninsular War. He had little disputes with EH about politics and religion...

She particularly admired Joanna Baillie 's Ethwald and the Chronicles of Froissart . Germaine de Staël 's Corinne was another major influence on her. She wrote years later: That book, in particular towards its close...

Later interest in this sibling relationship has centred on the two novels in which Beckford has been said to have lampooned Hervey's writing—even though critics of his writing have paid these texts comparatively little attention...