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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Hubback | CH
heads her volumes and chapters with quotations. Wordsworth
is the most-used here; among other lines, he is cited for A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little farther... |
politics | Leigh Hunt | LH
's gender politics were less forward-looking than his attitudes to government. In early versions of his poem The Feast of the Poets (published in 1814) he dismissed those driv'llers of the penWilliam Wordsworth |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt
, born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy
and William Wordsworth
, John Ruskin
... |
Textual Production | Aldous Huxley | A third society or smart-set novel of similar type, Those Barren Leaves (titled from Wordsworth
), followed in 1925. |
Education | Jean Ingelow | In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare
, Southey
, Scott
, Wordsworth
, and Tennyson
. She also read Henry Drummond
's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb
's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell. 23 |
Education | Anna Brownell Jameson | Anna was educated by Miss Yokeley
, a governess, who taught her French. After the departure of Miss Yokeley, some time between 1803 and 1806, Anna acted as governess to her sisters. She also taught... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | 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... |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Francesca Elgee set the tone for her correspondence with John Hilson
in her earliest surviving letter, writing your Gods are my Gods about her favourite modern living poets, Tennyson
and Elizabeth Barrett
, who... |
Textual Production | Henrietta Camilla Jenkin | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall
in March 1831, GJ
saw William Wordsworth
and Maria Edgeworth
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 15-16 |
Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
called on theWordsworth
family at Rydal Mount for the first time. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66 , No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03. 182 |
Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | During MJJ
's visit to Rydal Mount, she rode ponies through the nearby mountains while listening to Wordsworth
recite poetry. Sometimes during these excursions, she received freshly picked nosegays from the celebrated poet. Later... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
became very close to Wordsworth
's daughter Dora
; the relationship, which may have been mutually romantic, Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 227 |
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