William Wordsworth

In Unruly Times, 1989, she considers the shared thinking of Wordsworth and Coleridge , and its development in the context of epoch-making public events and the intellectual climate which surrounded them.

The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM

Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson and Elizabeth Barrett , who...

There followed, also in the Athenæum, a review of Wordsworth 's poems in August 1842. As well as these, EBB provided both critical contributions on Carlyle and Tennyson , and material gleaned from her...

MR 's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft , William Wordsworth , and Annette Vallon .

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter

DW kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William .

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...

Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote to George Smith of Smith, Elder on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy...

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 .

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...

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

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...