William Wordsworth

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...

MS claimed that William Wordsworth was her friend.

At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Douglas Jerrold , William Wordsworth , and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank .

A Christian and political radical, STC associated with William Godwin and Robert Southey . William Wordsworth wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...

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

On the last day of their expedition, ES visited William Wordsworth and his family at Rydal Mount. ES found the visit awkward, though she appreciated Wordsworth's kindness.

JW visited Harriet Martineau at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth , whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.

The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron . Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...

Charles Mathews's elder brother, William (who died young, though after EKM ), was the most intimate Cambridge friend of William Wordsworth .

She met Wordsworth and Southey in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812. He named her his ideal English [sic] gentlewoman. It was about the same...

On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle

Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...

In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...

Elizabeth Barrett was introduced to Mary Russell Mitford , who became a lifelong friend, by her cousin John Kenyon ; she met Wordsworth the following day.

The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .