Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, and Laetitia Pilkington. “Annotation”. The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.
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Leisure and Society | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
Literary responses | Jennifer Johnston | This quotation was used to head an enthusiastic notice by US critic Julia Epstein
in the Washington Post Book World. Johnston, wrote Epstein, coils her language so tightly that she achieves the compression we... |
Literary responses | Charlotte Smith | Wordsworth
chose Smith's sonnets, with Milton
's and his own, as domestic reading on Christmas Eve 1802. Thirty years later Coleridge spoke of the personal or egotistical elegiac form as standing at the heart of... |
Literary responses | Laetitia Pilkington | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
wrote in her copy of the London reprint of LP
's Memoirs, as good Poetry as Pope
s [sic]. |
Literary responses | Anne Bannerman | The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott
, John Leyden
, and William Wordsworth
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 143 |
Literary responses | Mary Robinson | The title and publisher convinced Dorothy Wordsworth
that MR
was cashing in on the fame of her brother
's Lyrical Ballads; she told a friend that he was thinking of changing his own title... |
Literary responses | Isabella Lickbarrow | Recently Jonathan Wordsworth
has called her a poet of genuine individuality, well worth recuperation, Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 193 Curran, Stuart. “Isabella Lickbarrow and Mary Bryan: Wordsworthian Poets”. The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 27 , No. 2, pp. 113-18. 113 |
Literary responses | Mary Ann Browne | This collection was highly praised by William Wordsworth
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Edna St Vincent Millay | Her editor Eugene Saxton
wrote that the staff at Harper
were much moved by the emotional quality of the poems. Milford, Nancy. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Random House. 450 |
Literary responses | Jean Plaidy | Irish critic Colm Tóibín
, who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns
, Wordsworth
... |
Literary responses | Anne Killigrew | William Wordsworth
included an excerpt from one of these poems, St John the Baptist, in the manuscript anthology he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther
at Christmas 1819. The anthologised lines end finely, Excess and... |
Literary responses | Susanna Blamire | In 1886 the Dictionary of National Biography said SBdeserves more recognition than she has yet received. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Literary responses | Robert Browning | This series was at least the catalyst for the first direct contact between RB
and his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett
, since she praised it in Lady Geraldine's Courtship, which she included in her... |
Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Norma Clarke
sees in this late work some of FH
's strongest poetry and a resolution of the conflicts and inhibitions of her earlier work: Deeply religious, personal, and direct, they reaffirm the centrality of... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Wordsworth
expressed a wish that he had written Life himself. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 26 |
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