Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
continuous series 231
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Literary responses | Jane Warton | Joseph Warton
, who wrote on the same subject in the same genre, told a friend by the way her poem was the best of the two. Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, pp. 84-92. 85 |
Residence | Mary Augusta Ward | She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 13 |
Textual Production | Mary Augusta Ward | This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth
(nephew of the poet
), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Trollope | The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and... |
Friends, Associates | Annie Tinsley | She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth
. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 8 |
Textual Production | Flora Thompson | She had begun this the summer after the war, calling it These Too Were Victorians. Her publisher, Geoffrey Cumberlege
, wrote with congratulations on the first instalment she sent him, and offered her an... |
Occupation | Alfred Tennyson | AT
became poet laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
, who had died that April. Ricks, Christopher. Tennyson. Macmillan. 232 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Emma Tennant | Among the novels where ET
highlights gender roles by reworking well-known stories, Alice Fell, 1980, deals with the Greek myth of Persephone under a title borrowed from William Wordsworth
. |
Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | The twelve-year-old Swinburne met Wordsworth
in September 1849 while he was on holiday with his family. The writer Elizabeth Sewell
was among the family party travelling that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | Anna Swanwick | |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Strutt | The first chapter-heading comes from one of Wordsworth
's Lucy poems; eighteenth-century poets are also quoted. Unattributed chapter-headings, as well as verses by characters in the novel, are probably by ES
herself. The protagonist, Genevieve... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Stone | The third volume of Miss Pen and her Niece contained a short story, Sir Eustace de Lucie, a rewriting of Wordsworth
's poem The Horn of Egremont Castle. Set in the medieval period... |
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