William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William
Three-quarter-length painting of William Wordsworth by Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1842, known as "Wordsworth on Helvellyn" (though it was painted in London, with the mountain scene done from memory). Haydon was responding to a poem Wordsworth wrote for him; Elizabeth Barrett (later Browning), alerted by Mary Russell Mitford, wrote a poem about the painting. Wordsworth stands tall, arms folded and gazing downwards, showing his beaky face and bald head framed in remaining white hair and sideburns. National Portr

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Textual Production Dorothy Wordsworth
DW kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William .
Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth. Editor Selincourt, Ernest De, Macmillan, 1941, 2 vols.
1: 3, 16 and n2
Textual Production Susanna Blamire
Gilpin/Coward (who provided a good deal of biographical information and other commentary) argued that SB had the most original and most reflective mind that Cumberland has produced, apart from William Wordsworth .
Blamire, Susanna, and Catherine Gilpin. Songs and Poems. Editor Coward, George, George Routledge, 1866.
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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...
Textual Production E. M. Delafield
Its title comes from Wordsworth 's poem, The World is Too Much with Us.
Textual Production Mary Ann Browne
The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years.
Browne, Mary Ann. Ignatia. Hamilton, Adams, 1838.
prelims
Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
AC published, as Agatha Christie Mallowan, a collection of travel reminiscences, Come, Tell Me How You Live: the title (quoted from William Wordsworth questioning the leech-gatherer) puns on tell, the Arabic word...
Textual Production Margaret Fuller
Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so),
Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 22, 15 Nov. 2007, pp. 16-18.
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she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
She was invited to write for the magazine by John Middleton Murry , who founded it in 1923, though both he and Katherine Mansfield had published negative reviews of earlier volumes of Pilgrimage.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press, 1995.
41-2, 90, 212
Textual Production Ruth Rendell
RR published A Guilty Thing Surprised, a novel portraying an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister.
The title is a quotation from William Wordsworth 's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1970
Benstock, Bernard, and Thomas F. Staley, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 87. Gale Research, 1989.
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Textual Production Anne Marsh
Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White, 1883, 2 vols.
I: prelims; II: prelims
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lydia Howard Sigourney
Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Brownell Jameson
The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Emily Shore
The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

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