Henry Crabb Robinson

While she lived in London AJV moved in culturally active circles. She later described the poet Eleanor Anne Porden (who lived not far away) as her dear friend, and was one of those who...

ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...

Friends of WB included William Hayley (who provided his cottage at Felpham, but with whom Blake broke after their years as neighbours) and Henry Crabb Robinson , who published a critical essay about him in...

Crabb Robinson , another minor player, called the distinguished guests [f]ive poets of very unequal worth and most disproportionate popularity, whom the public would rank in the reverse order to their actual achievement. Sarah Burton

AS 's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson , Tennyson , Robert Browning (who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau (brother of...

Talk about the conflict at Greta Hall circulated through England's literary circles. Henry Crabb Robinson , Sarah Burney , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and Mary Russell Mitford were all privy to this gossip.

In Germany she was celebrated as the author of Delphine. She met with Schiller , Goethe , Henry Crabb Robinson , and Schlegel , whom she persuaded to tutor her three living children.

Particularly important among her circle was the diarist Henry Crabb Robinson . He valued her company, her abilities, and her letters highly. They saw a lot of each other in Rome.

Henry Crabb Robinson , who saw her a few days after the funeral, believed that although she was speaking sense she was actually out of her mind. During the first years of her bereavement...

EAP was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution , and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest...

Both Henry Crabb Robinson and Charles Lamb commented on AP 's ugly appearance.

SHB called this work, once in print, my little booky.Henry Crabb Robinson , presumably in deference to her age, pretended that his opinion was higher than it really was.

JP 's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure...

Henry Crabb Robinson , the London gentleman for whom she had assumed an air of such mock-modesty, thought her one of the liveliest and most amusing of his correspondents.

Henry Crabb Robinson judged this essay to be charming, acute, entertaining & yet wise.