William Wordsworth

The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture (discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco

MR 's Fair Exchange, a historical novel, dealt with episodes in the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft , William Wordsworth , and Annette Vallon .

Again, ATR 's stay at Chateau Bréquerecque, Boulogne, in 1854 provided the basis for the novel's setting. She takes chapter epigraphs from a wide range of folk and literary sources, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Wordsworth .

Anne Bradby (later AR ) was still at school when she first met Charles Williams , the poet, Christian apologist, novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a friend of her headmistress, and came to lecture...

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.

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

The novel contains particularly sophisticated subplots, including the intense rivalry between Burden's teenaged children, and Elizabeth's and Wexford's parallel fears of growing old. As usual in RR 's work, the novel gives an important role...

KR 's father, George Raine (the son of a coal-miner in County Durham, and a graduate of Durham University), was an English master and housemaster at the County High School in Ilford, a lover of...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

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...

EAP was projecting an essay periodical in 1815 (she had the first two numbers planned) when this long poem, written at sixteen, appeared. At about the same time she was reading Wordsworth'sRecluse and poems...

Irish critic Colm Tóibín , who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns , Wordsworth ...

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP 's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope s [sic].Wordsworth also admired it.

Wordsworth chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...

The death of her infant son, probably in June 1655, drew from KP two heart-rending poems, one formally entitled Epitaph. On Hector Phillips. At St Sith's Church, the other On the death of my...