William Wordsworth

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .

She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second...

While staying near the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, EG met William Wordsworth and received his autograph.

She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth . His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson.

AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...

It seems that the Wordsworth family (William , Mary , and Dorothy ) were more troubled about the marriage than about the sexual relation that preceded it. De Quincey evidently forgave Dorothy Wordsworth (who...

MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...

At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall in March 1831, GJ saw William Wordsworth and Maria Edgeworth . In the 1830s and 1840s she became a friend...

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...

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.

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

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...

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...