Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon, 1989.
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Education | Jane Marcet | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eliza Fletcher | Her daughter Margaret
married Dr John Davy
, brother of the scientist Sir Humphry Davy
. Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon, 1989. 410n58 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Atkins | Anna's father, John George Children
, was an amateur scientist during his years as a gentleman of leisure, and made a living from scientific work when that became necessary. He was twice Secretary of the... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Fanshawe | When CF
met both Byron
and Germaine de Staël
in spring 1814 at a dinner party at the house of Sir Humphry Davy
, she was unimpressed by Byron and his outpourings of radical opinion... |
Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | On her return to Paris after Robespierre's death, HMW
and Stone lived in a house (where she held her salon) on the Quai Malaquais. After peace was announced between England and France in 1801... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | EIS
says that her early friendship with Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
was inherited, developing from the friendship between their parents, Spence, Elizabeth Isabella. Letters from the North Highlands, During the Summer 1816. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. 325-6 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna Maria Porter |
Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
Instructor | Eleanor Anne Porden | By the age of nine or ten EAP
was attending science lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy
and others at the Royal Institution
in London. One commentator, Desmond King-Hele
, argues that she gathered... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Beeton | As it turned out, however, most of the recipes and information in the book came from published sources, though two popular cookery books directed at the middle classes, Hannah Glasse
's The Art of Cookery... |
Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
Textual Features | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
's opening remarks (undated, unlike Barlow's) refer to the author as he and paints a gendered (though no doubt accurate) picture of fathers teaching sons from one generation to another. She argues that as... |
Textual Production | Anne Damer | AD
's activity as a sculptor dates mostly from after 1777. Her best-known works include the keystones of the bridge at Henley, carved to represent the rivers Thames and Isis: completed in 1785, they... |
Textual Production | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
published, jointly with her son-in-law Euan Cooper-Willis
, Laughing Gas and Safety Lamp, a biography for young people of Sir Humphry Davy
that sets the inventor in his historical context. British Book News. British Council. (1951): 694 |
Travel | Maria Edgeworth | After visiting Kilkenny (the furthest west she had been in Ireland), ME
went on to Dublin, where she heard Sir Humphry Davy
lecture. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 215-16 |
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