William Wordsworth

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

The work bears a dedication, dated at London on 10 April 1828, to Princess Augusta Sophia . In her preface RMR , unusually, says something about herself, and the financial and emotional problems...

FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...

The enthusiastic review by J. C. Squire was not entirely welcome to VSW , since she regarded Squire as a silly old ass and all that. She feared being relegated to the category of...

Charlotte tried to promote the volume by sending copies to such authors as Wordsworth , Tennyson , De Quincey , and Ebenezer Elliot .

Between the death of Southey , the Poet Laureate, and the appointment of Wordsworth as his successor, CN wrote to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel , to request the position for herself.

LEL became strongly associated with a highly gendered construction of female poetic vocation. As Virginia Blain has argued, she became (with Hemans , and following their deaths on the cusp of the era) one progenitor...

In the same preface EOB promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth , apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade...

Following Wordsworth 's death (on 23 April), the Athenæum proposed EBB as his successor for poet laureate.

FH was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records...

Wordsworth chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...