William Wordsworth

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...

MS published Tribute to Wordsworth : A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford with the nineteenth.

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

The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption and hints at her ambition, citing Charlotte Smith . She admires Smith for having succeeded...

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

RR published A Guilty Thing Surprised, a novel portraying an incestuous relationship between a brother and sister.

William Wordsworth 's Description of the Scenery of the English Lakes appeared in April 1810 as an introduction to the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson 's Select Views in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire. It included a...

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...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

Following the correspondence of SC 's mother with Thomas Poole (Minnow among Tritons. Mrs. S.T. Coleridge 's letters to Thomas Poole, 1799-1834, a volume entitled Sara Coleridge and Henry Reed was published in...

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.

Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton

Sir Walter Scott had encouraged her from poetry into novel-writing. Unless the condition of her eyes improved miraculously during the sixteen months before publication, she must have composed by dictating to an amanuensis. Copies of...

It is in large format from John Murray , illustrated with engravings from drawings by the author's late husband , and dedicated to the queen . Subscribers included most of the British royal family, the...

AB titled an ambitious novel, Imperial Palace, from a phrase used by William Wordsworth for the mysterious origins of the human individual.