Athenæum. J. Lection.
2640 (1878): 693
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Friends, Associates | Georgiana Chatterton | 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
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2640 (1878): 693 Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett. 34, 76 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62. 58 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | 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. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press. viii |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | While staying near the village of Ambleside in the Lake District, EG
met William Wordsworth
and received his autograph. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon. 410 and n57 Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 231-2 |
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 | Helen Maria Williams | The European Magazine printed a poem On Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams
Weep at a Tale of Distress: the first publication of the schoolboy William Wordsworth
. Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints. 191-2 |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Bryan | MB
approached Sir Walter Scott
on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall
in March 1831, GJ
saw William Wordsworth
and Maria Edgeworth
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 15-16 |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | 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. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking. 323-6 |
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 | Margaret Holford | 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... |
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