William Wordsworth

On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS met Wordsworth and Coleridge .

DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .

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.

Joanna Baillie (a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF , and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. At first meeting, Fletcher did not...

CS met Helen Maria Williams during her brief visit to revolutionary France. She provided an introduction to Williams for William Wordsworth (who had in fact met or perhaps merely seen her already) before he too...

DW 's life was radically changed when her brother William married Mary Hutchinson .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

MJJ became very close to Wordsworth 's daughter Dora ; the relationship, which may have been mutually romantic, lasted until Jewsbury's death. When her physical and mental health failed, Dora sent her the present...

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...