William Wordsworth

Her daughter Margaret married Dr John Davy , brother of the scientist Sir Humphry Davy . Her youngest daughter, Mary, who became Lady Richardson , published her mother's autobiography and some letters. Since Margaret...

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

She was dazzled by him at their first meeting, and became his mentor. She was one of the eminent names to whom in 1801 he and Wordsworth sent a complementry copy of the epoch-making second...

MS claimed that William Wordsworth was her friend.

Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth , William Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Thomas Holcroft , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Maria Edgeworth .

At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall in March 1831, GJ saw William Wordsworth and Maria Edgeworth . In the 1830s and 1840s she became a friend...

Other celebrities she met as a girl and described in her diary included society hostess Lady Cork and writers Joanna Baillie , William Wordsworth , and Samuel Rogers . The...

A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson as the equal of Shakespeare . In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson (who thought this behaviour personally...

He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth . His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson.

She was too shy to move in literary circles, though she did meet several writers who called on her, including Sarah Austin and Sir Charles Trevelyan . With each of them she felt uncomfortable, as...

An evening at Thomas Monkhouse 's London home brought together Wordsworth , Coleridge , Charles Lamb , Thomas Moore , and Samuel Rogers . Mary Lamb , also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account.

It seems that the Wordsworth family (William , Mary , and Dorothy ) were more troubled about the marriage than about the sexual relation that preceded it. De Quincey evidently forgave Dorothy Wordsworth (who...

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

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...

On the last day of their expedition, ES visited William Wordsworth and his family at Rydal Mount. ES found the visit awkward, though she appreciated Wordsworth's kindness.