William Wordsworth

Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), she began reporting to the Tribune almost immediately on her arrival in Liverpool. While she includes...

SM edited Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s, a collection of essays on women in this radical decade whose title draws on William Wordsworth 's memory of being young and idealistic at the...

The dedication celebrates her sister as the playmate of my childhood, the companion of my youth, and . . . the friend and blessing of my maturer years. Epigraphs from Wordsworth , Byron ,...

AC published, as Agatha Christie Mallowan, a collection of travel reminiscences, Come, Tell Me How You Live: the title (quoted from William Wordsworth questioning the leech-gatherer) puns on tell, the Arabic word...

DW kept (with decreasing fullness) her earliest surviving journal, written at Alfoxden, the second home she had shared with her brother William .

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...

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...

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 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

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...

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

The subject-matter of her contributions was dictated and limited by her editor, Dunbar T. Wint , who did not believe that women had any place in the political or intellectual arena. UM nevertheless found opportunities...

Sometime after 1864 MB worked together with Tennyson , Landor , and Wordsworth in a miscellany encouraged by Lord Northampton (brother of her friend Lady Marian Alford, and son of the remarkable poet Margaret, Lady Northampton