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
Friends, Associates Charlotte Smith
CS met Helen Maria Williams during her brief visit to revolutionary France. She provided an introduction to Williams for William Wordsworth (who had in fact met or perhaps merely seen her already) before he too...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wordsworth
DW first met Coleridge when he arrived on foot at Racedown to stay with her and William .
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
1: 317
Friends, Associates Lady Eleanor Butler
Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...
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, 1977.
191-2
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
She met Wordsworth and Southey in the Lake District in 1808, and was corresponding with Wordsworth by 1812.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
1: 240
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
23
He named her his ideal English [sic] gentlewoman.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
57
It was about the same...
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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
The twelve-year-old Swinburne met Wordsworth in September 1849 while he was on holiday with his family. The writer Elizabeth Sewell was among the family party travelling that year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Felicia Hemans
The connection between the male and the female poet was made by Maria Jane Jewsbury , who was a good friend of the family, Dora Wordsworth especially. Hemans brought one of her sons on the...
Friends, Associates Lydia Howard Sigourney
On this trip LHS added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , Samuel Rogers , Anna Maria Hall and her husband , and Jane and Thomas Carlyle
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett was introduced to Mary Russell Mitford , who became a lifelong friend, by her cousin John Kenyon ; she met Wordsworth the following day.
Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990.
80-2
Browning, Robert, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Brownings’ Correspondence. Editors Kelley, Philip et al., Wedgestone Press, 1984–2025, 14 vols. to date.
3: 320
Friends, Associates Anna Swanwick
On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS met Wordsworth and Coleridge .
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
24
Friends, Associates Julia Wedgwood
JW visited Harriet Martineau at her home, The Knoll, in Ambleside. They paid a call on Wordsworth , whom Julia found conceited and disagreeable.
Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980.
254
Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980.
253-4
Friends, Associates Eliza Fletcher
Joanna Baillie (a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF , and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her.
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
2: 699
At first meeting, Fletcher did not...
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, 1878.
34, 76
The...
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...

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