William Wordsworth

Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote to George Smith of Smith, Elder on 10 February 1859 to urge him to publish this novel, which, however, she declared she had not read. He sent her a copy...

MG followed this great success with Worlds not Realized, 1856 (an instructional book whose title is adapted from a line in Wordsworth about the blank misgivings of the soul obstinately questioning the resistant physical...

This was from the beginning a less purely private text than the Grasmere journal, being written, said DW , for the benefit of a few friends who were unable to come on the tour (foremost...

Among AM 's surviving letters are a few to friends about her early publications and her feelings about them. She kept her letters to her son, Martin, during his final year at Eton . To...

MS published Tribute to Wordsworth : A Miscellany of Opinion for the Centenary of the Poet's Death, a work on Wordsworth's reception in which she dealt with the twentieth century and Derek Stanford with the nineteenth.

The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption and hints at her ambition, citing Charlotte Smith . She admires Smith for having succeeded...

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

The title-page bore a creative misquotation from William Wordsworth : She lived within her father's halls . . . And very few to love—which converts the rustic Lucy into an upper-class heroine like AM

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

Though AS disliked Samuel Johnson, many of her literary opinions were conservative. She still loved Ossian in 1796, when the texts were known to be forgeries. On 24 August 1807 (despite her admiration for Robert Southey

The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .

The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria 's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as...

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin and the philosophies of Carlyle on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc , and her...