William Wordsworth

Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...

RR published A Guilty Thing Surprised, a novel portraying an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister.

The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption and hints at her ambition, citing Charlotte Smith . She admires Smith for having succeeded...

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

MS published Tribute to Wordsworth : A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford with the nineteenth.

MG followed this great success with Worlds not Realized, 1856 (an instructional book whose title is adapted from a line in Wordsworth about the blank misgivings of the soul obstinately questioning the resistant physical...

William Wordsworth 's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson 's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a...

Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

Following the correspondence of SC 's mother with Thomas Poole (Minnow among Tritons. Mrs. S.T. Coleridge 's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834, a volume entitled Sara Coleridge and Henry Reed was published in...

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey

The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .