William Wordsworth

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...

Maxwell had been an admirer of SB 's writing since his early youth: with a father serving in India, he used her poem The Nabob to feed his imaginings of how it would be when...

By mid-August 1793 Smith had written what was probably a poem called Tintern Abbey. If it was indeed a poem, it preceded Wordsworth 's more famous composition of this name by five years.

Its title comes from Wordsworth 's poem, The World is Too Much with Us.

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 .

Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...

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...

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. Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...

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...

Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey

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 .

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

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...

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...

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...