Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking.
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Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Although William Wordsworth
can be regarded as mediator between Kate Southey
and CB
, he was convinced that Bowles was at fault. The entire Wordsworth clan, and Sara Coleridge
, allied themselves with Southey's youngest... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | 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, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth
, who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Her playmates included Edith Southey
and Dora Wordsworth
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 25 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Mary Hamilton | She was introduced to William Wordsworth
through her brother
, and Wordsworth visited the Hamilton siblings at Dunsink in August 1829. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 38 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blain, Virginia. “Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Eliza Mary Hamilton, and the Genealogy of the Victorian Poetess”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 33 , No. 1, pp. 31-51. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Because her husband
, like her father
, was well-connected, MCH
was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam
, Samuel Rogers
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
met Henry Crabb Robinson
and William Wordsworth
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, Macmillan. 1: 200 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | During MJJ
's visit to Rydal Mount, she rode ponies through the nearby mountains while listening to Wordsworth
recite poetry. Sometimes during these excursions, she received freshly picked nosegays from the celebrated poet. Later... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams
Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth
. Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints. 191-2 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | She was too shy to move in literary circles, though she did meet several writers who called on her, including Sarah Austin
and Sir Charles Trevelyan
. With each of them she felt uncomfortable, as... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Stockdale | MS
claimed that William Wordsworth
was her friend. Stockdale, Mary. The Mirror of the Mind. John Stockdale. |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
dined with Crabb Robinson
, Wordsworth
, Henry Coleridge
, and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton
and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 142 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
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