William Wordsworth

At home her mother had read to her daughters, while they sewed, Greek and Roman history, and writers like Pope , and Cowper . At four Anna could recite long passages from Milton 's L'Allegro...

She was saved by the public Children's Library. She read omnivorously, beginning with the Dr Doolittle books (Hugh Lofting ) and fairy stories but missing out on Enid Blyton (who was kept locked away)...

The only daughter in a family of boys, ESP credited her father for her intellectual development: He was my climate. As soon as I began to think, I began to reverence thought and study and...

DW 's life was radically changed when her brother William married Mary Hutchinson .

CC 's father, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge , was a son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Derwent published poetry in his youth under the pseudonym Davenant Cecil in the Knight's Quarterly. While his literary...

They had corresponded since April 1818 when she wrote for literary counsel. In September 1823 she visited Southey at Keswick for several weeks. William Wordsworth (who thought CB a fine poet) acted as her tour...

Sir Henry Taylor , UT 's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready . Taylor's...

In the summer of 1840 tension between the women of Greta Hall flared and Kate left to stay with the Wordsworth family. At Rydal Mount Wordsworth persuaded Kate to write a 30-page description of her...

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...

Dorothy's brothers were, in order of age, Richard , William , John , and Christopher . Richard became a lawyer, John a naval officer (who died when the ship he commanded ran aground and sank...

From early childhood Dorothy had been especially close to her brother William . When in 1794 she was at last able to live with him, the reunion was emotional and they both felt that their...

MJJ became very close to Wordsworth 's daughter Dora ; the relationship, which may have been mutually romantic, lasted until Jewsbury's death. When her physical and mental health failed, Dora sent her the present...

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...

The Roths were devastated by their daughter's decision to marry a gentile. They disowned her and ceased to give her any financial support. However, this period had its happy moments as well. Q. D. introduced...

Her daughter Margaret married Dr John Davy , brother of the scientist Sir Humphry Davy . Her youngest daughter, Mary, who became Lady Richardson , published her mother's autobiography and some letters. Since Margaret...