William Wordsworth

Nearly a decade before Elizabeth Barrett Browning 's The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, but following William Wordsworth 's Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman and Felicia Hemans 's The Indian Woman's Lament...

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...

The collection is dedicated to her brother, William Rowan Hamilton .William Wordsworth thought highly of her writing. In a letter dated 10 January 1833, he wrote to her, arguing that women should...

The title, condensed from two lines in Wordsworth 's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, alludes to the dimming and flattening of once-acute sensations. One of these poems says that Love can never be...

Fitzallan first mesmerises Eileen Dundas in a harmless, social situation, but eventually puts her in a trance and has her kill Geoffrey Carresford, whom she loves and is expected to marry, and who has penetrated...

Writing to Mary Russell Mitford of her hope that they might meet, HM acknowledged the influence which the spirit of your writings has had over me. Her reading included Shakespeare , Smollett ...

The third volume of Miss Pen and her Niece contained a short story, Sir Eustace de Lucie, a rewriting of Wordsworth 's poem The Horn of Egremont Castle. Set in the medieval period...

MCH raises the tone of her work with chapter-headings from Wordsworth , Shakespeare , Dryden , and others, most of them asserting the value of the poor and powerless, or protesting about the deficiencies of...

Of the anthology poems, The Ship's Return is a ballad in which a lover fails to return with his ship, and A Sketch pictures a mother with her baby. One of the magazine pieces, Retrospection...

One of the poems, a delightful Ode which imitates or parodies several well-known passages in various works by Gray , was written not by CF but by her friend Mary Berry , some time before...

Published by Jackson and Walford in London and by Simms and Dinham in Manchester, the book opens with several invocational stanzas that name both Felicia Hemans and William Wordsworth as inspirational figures for the...

The first chapter-heading comes from one of Wordsworth 's Lucy poems; eighteenth-century poets are also quoted. Unattributed chapter-headings, as well as verses by characters in the novel, are probably by ES herself. The protagonist, Genevieve...

Before the work was published, MJJ sent William Wordsworth , whom she had never met, a copy of the first volume. In her letter she thanked him for his inspiration and expressed her hope that...

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 .

The Ladies and the rural ideal they embodied became famous in literary circles, an object of pilgrimage alike to the lesbian Anne Lister and to more conventional figures like William Wordsworth and the Irish poet...