William Wordsworth

The novel contains particularly sophisticated subplots, including the intense rivalry between Burden's teenaged children, and Elizabeth's and Wexford's parallel fears of growing old. As usual in RR 's work, the novel gives an important role...

One of these stories, The Authoress is notable as a künstlerroman and a defence of GA 's ambitions as a writer. It is the tale of frustrated romance between a young woman writer and a...

The collection is dedicated to her brother, William Rowan Hamilton .William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...

ALB was a presence in the early poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge , though they later distanced themselves from her so emphatically. Her work appeared in magazines in the USA before the end of the...

MD 's critical study Wordsworth addressed the work of a poet who, she says, has influenced her thinking.

Elizabeth Isabella Spence , reporting on a visit to Bristol, mentions AY as an example of an obscure woman writer of genius. In 1990 Donna Landry wrote of her complex contradictions under the heading...

The title-page quotes William Wordsworth . This is a deliberately quiet and humdrum book, set in the Midlands and centred on the elderly, unmarried Miss Hills of Bever Hollow, Althea and Kitty. Their sisterly relationship...

The poems tend to the plaintive, but an allegiance to Wordsworth and to his rule of simplicity keeps MB from overstatement. The opening poem in the volume is a critical appreciation of Wordsworth's achievement which...

DW 's Alfoxden journal, written in close association with both William Wordsworth and Coleridge , filtered into the poetry of each. Her phrases surface in The Ancient Mariner (whose restless gossamers come from her restless...

Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated...

In Holiday Stories for Boys and GirlsMAB writes that she has copied real life because she is not clever enough to make up invented stories.Sybil's Book portrays four girls growing up and...

MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...

Before the work was published, MJJ sent William Wordsworth , whom she had never met, a copy of the first volume. In her letter she thanked him for his inspiration and expressed her hope that...

The elderly narrator of The Deformed is physician to the family of the Marquess of Brandon, in the little town of Carstones, which depends on the marquess and seems like an appendage to his castle...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...