Athenæum. J. Lection.
1179 (1850): 585
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Reception | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Following Wordsworth
's death (on 23 April), the Athenæum proposed EBB
as his successor for poet laureate. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1179 (1850): 585 |
Publishing | Isabella Lickbarrow | Subscribers included Wordsworth
, Southey
, and De Quincey
, all of them writers living in the area. Commentator Jonathan Wordsworth
suggests that the subscription list, which clearly took careful fund-raising work, may have been... |
Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
Publishing | Regina Maria Roche | The work bears a dedication, dated at London on 10 April 1828, to Princess Augusta Sophia
. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 2: 671 |
Publishing | Anne Grant | Among her 3,000 subscribers were Joanna Baillie
, Felicia Hemans
, Robert Southey
, William Wordsworth
, Lady Bessborough
, her sister Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
, the minor poet Lady Dick
, Elizabeth Hamilton |
Publishing | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's introductions are largely biographical. After these first books she got her series taken on by Collins for The English Poets, a subset of their series Britain in Pictures (of whose editorial committee... |
Publishing | Mary Maria Colling | The full title reads Fables and other Pieces in Verse . . . With some account of the author, in letters to Robert Southey
Esq. . . . by Mrs. Bray. The dedicatory poem... |
Publishing | Catherine Cookson | Cookson collaborated with Piers Dudgeon
on Catherine Cookson
Country, one in a Heinemann
series of historical photographs that had already covered the localities of Wordsworth
and Thomas Hardy
. Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons. (1988) Jones, Kathleen. Catherine Cookson: The Biography. Constable. 297 |
Publishing | Dorothy Wordsworth | She worked on this account during the year following the actual journey, and found it very hard going, chiefly on account of what she now felt to be the excessive quantity of her notes compiled... |
Author summary | Robert Southey | |
Author summary | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
is chiefly remembered for her Romantic-period journals, especially for her descriptions of the detail of nature, landscape, growth, and seasonal change. The journals, however, are equally remarkable for observing the doings of people: both... |
politics | Leigh Hunt | LH
's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth |
politics | Isabella Lickbarrow | This indicates an active political conscience. Lord Lonsdale wielded his huge local power on behalf of the Tory Party. In February this year there were riots in Kendal when two sons of Lonsdale, standing as... |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | She loved teaching grammar, and converting her pupils to Wordsworth
and other poetry, but she hated the headmaster's enthusiastic use of corporal punishment, ran a campaign against it, and was sacked from her job. Rubens, Bernice. When I Grow Up. Time Warner Books. 67-8 |
Occupation | Iris Murdoch | Dawson later recalled her as blithe and insouciant about set-texts and exams, preferring to roam over philosophical and literary ideas from Plato
to Arthur Koestler
. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 52 |
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