Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray.
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Employer | Maria Callcott | After her stint as royal governess in Brazil, which lasted about a year, Maria Graham (later MC
) continued to work, whether or not she actually needed the money. She became a reader of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | During the early years of her first marriage, between her time in India and in Italy, Maria Graham (later MC
) met Jane Marcet
and the publisher John Murray
. Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray. 153-4, 166 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | She was welcomed into Edinburgh society, where she attended dinners, masked balls, and concerts. Through her London editors, John Murray
and John Gibson Lockhart
, she made literary connections. She knew Professor John Wilson
and... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon
, Isaac D'Israeli
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli
(who visited England... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | Owing to her nervousness and delicate health AEB
did not socialize much; her literary friends were few though deeply valued, including L. E. L.
, John Murray
, Owen Rees
, and Anna Maria Hall |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Byron
, in a letter to Murray
by 30 September 1816, praised The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy as a good poem—very, and he echoed it in Canto 4 of Childe... |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray
sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?). Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking. 252 |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Nevertheless, the Romantic Circles Electronic Edition of this poem edited by Nanora Sweet
and Barbara Taylor
represents it as a much more open and indeed sceptical text than FH
's own comment suggests, and subtitles... |
Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Her translations of Ranke
's works were praised by Henry Hart Milman
, Dean of St Paul's, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Occupation | George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron | In Venice he discovered surviving letters from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
to Francesco Algarotti
, and wrote to his publisher, John Murray
, about getting them into print. Murray, however, did not respond. Winch, Alison. “Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Byronic Hero”. Pride and Prejudices: Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century. |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | |
Publishing | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Byron
(an admirer of Montagu's writing) came on some of her letters to Algarotti in Venice in the early nineteenth century, but his efforts to get John Murray
to publish them came to nothing. A... |
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