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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothy Wordsworth
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Bowles
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...
Friends, Associates Caroline Bowles
Although William Wordsworth can be regarded as mediator between Kate Southey and CB , he was convinced that Bowles was at fault. The entire Wordsworth clan, and Sara Coleridge , allied themselves with Southey's youngest...
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA met Henry Crabb Robinson and William Wordsworth .
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols.
1: 200
Friends, Associates Sara Coleridge
Her playmates included Edith Southey and Dora Wordsworth .
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
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William Wordsworth 's poem The Triad describes these three young girls.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
Friends, Associates Mary Russell Mitford
She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman
qtd. in
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62.
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who would look well in feminine dress and occupations, and William Wordsworth a venerable old man, delightfully...
Friends, Associates Lucy Aikin
LA dined with Crabb Robinson , Wordsworth , Henry Coleridge , and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton .
Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary.
142
Friends, Associates William Harrison Ainsworth
At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens , William Makepeace Thackeray , Douglas Jerrold , William Wordsworth , and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank .
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols.
Friends, Associates Annie Tinsley
She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth .
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Friends, Associates Mary Howitt
In Nottingham MH met L. E. L. and perhaps Elizabeth Fry . She was visited by Mary and Dora Wordsworth (wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the...
Friends, Associates Adelaide Procter
AP 's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt , William Hazlitt , Thomas Moore , Wordsworth , Tennyson , Longfellow , and Henry James . Intimates of the household included...
Friends, Associates Cecil Frances Alexander
The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron .
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix.
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Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...
Friends, Associates Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Christian and political radical, STC associated with William Godwin and Robert Southey . William Wordsworth wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...
Friends, Associates William Hazlitt
The direction of WH 's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and through him with William and Dorothy Wordsworth .
Friends, Associates Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...

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