Laski, Marghanita. “To the Editor: ’George Eliot and Her World’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3725, p. 869.
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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... |
Literary responses | Mary Lamb | Burton
writes: The adoption and appropriation of Mary's ideas and expressions in his own work was a natural activity of Charles
's writing, but compared with the retrospective recognition of Dorothy Wordsworth
's contribution to... |
Textual Features | Marghanita Laski | She insists that even Jane Austen
. . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books. Laski, Marghanita. “To the Editor: ’George Eliot and Her World’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3725, p. 869. 869 |
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... |
Textual Features | Q. D. Leavis | QDL
's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop
notes, her work recalls Wordsworth
's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 140 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth B. Lester | There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth
. The final story in this... |
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... |
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... |
Literary responses | Isabella Lickbarrow | Recently Jonathan Wordsworth
has called her a poet of genuine individuality, well worth recuperation, Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 193 Curran, Stuart. “Isabella Lickbarrow and Mary Bryan: Wordsworthian Poets”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 27 , No. 2, pp. 113-18. 113 |
Textual Production | Sara Maitland | SM
edited Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, a collection of essays on women in this radical decade whose title draws on William Wordsworth
's memory of being young and idealistic at the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Manning | The title-page quotes William Wordsworth
. This is a deliberately quiet and humdrum book, set in the Midlands and centred on the elderly, unmarried Miss Hills of Bever Hollow, Althea and Kitty. Their sisterly relationship... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Marsh | The elderly narrator of The Deformed is physician to the family of the Marquess of Brandon, in the little town of Carstones, which depends on the marquess and seems like an appendage to his castle... |
Textual Production | Anne Marsh | |
Textual Production | Anne Marsh | The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth
: She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM |
Education | Una Marson | UM
's favourite subject was English literature. She particularly loved Wordsworth
, who inspired her to resolve not . . . to be a good wage earner, but enjoy plain living and high thinking and... |
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