William Wordsworth

LEL's poetry was included in Christian Isobel Johnstone 's 1842 Rational Reading Lessons for children, and in 1879 in Louisa Anne Meredith 's Our Island Home, A Tasmanian Sketch Book, alongside other work by...

Quite unlike her later books, this one features a solitary heroine who takes a Wordsworth ian delight in nature.

This work had been begun by SC 's husband, Henry Nelson Coleridge , but she completed it after his early death. She dedicated this edition to Wordsworth (with his slightly reluctant permission), as his Child...

The editor of the Manchester Courier, Alaric Watts , encouraged her to compile a volume of her writing and persuaded Hurst and Robinson to publish the result, this book. She received £100 for Phantasmagoria...

Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM ) followed her Poems with several more books of verse on botanical themes. First came The Romance of Nature; or, The Flower Seasons, 1836, which again combines verse (about...

National Lyrics, which collected many of the lyrics FH had written for her sister and for composers, was dedicated to her friend Rose Lawrence , and Scenes to Wordsworth .

NB wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future...

Until her mid-teens, AMH moved freely in the literary atmosphere surrounding her parents. William Wordsworth gave her a copy of a selection of his poems that had been chosen for children. When her parents brought...

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting ) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton (who was kept locked away)...

The only daughter in a family of boys, ESP credited her father for her intellectual development: He was my climate. As soon as I began to think, I began to reverence thought and study and...

In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare , Southey , Scott , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . She also read Henry Drummond 's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb 's Letters.

Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley , a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught...

Even during the years of the detested Southsea school RK was developing an appreciation for literature. He writes of being surprised when reading (something Mrs Holloway forced him to do under threat of punishment) turned...

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...