Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon.
410 and n57
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Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | While staying near the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, EG
met William Wordsworth
and received his autograph. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410 and n57 Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 231-2 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 58 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | 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. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press. viii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | They had corresponded since April 1818 when she wrote for literary counsel. In September 1823 she visited Southey at Keswick for several weeks. William Wordsworth
(who thought CB
a fine poet) acted as her tour... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Coleridge | CC
's father, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge
, was a son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
. Derwent published poetry in his youth under the pseudonym Davenant Cecil in the Knight's Quarterly. While his literary... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Bowles | In the summer of 1840 tension between the women of Greta Hall flared and Kate left to stay with the Wordsworth
family. At Rydal Mount Wordsworth persuaded Kate to write a 30-page description of her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Raine | KR
's father, George Raine
(the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard
, William
, John
, and Christopher
. Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Wordsworth | From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William
. When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
became very close to Wordsworth
's daughter Dora
; the relationship, which may have been mutually romantic, Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 227 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Ridler | Anne Bradby (later AR
) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams
, the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Q. D. Leavis | The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced... |
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