Walter Savage Landor

MB was an avid reader. Her favourite authors included Walter Landor , with whom she exchanged frequent letters, the BrowningsRobert Browning , and most especially, her literary godfather, G. P. R. James .

Walter Savage Landor unselfishly chaperoned Eliza Lynn, like an actual father, to a whole season of balls and entertainments at Bath (for which she had only a single black dress, whose trimmings she constantly varied:...

Landor praised The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, telling Blessington: Your scenes and characters are real, your reflections profound and admirably expressed. The Edinburgh Review agreed as to the realism of the characters...

In 1825 Baillie reported Wallace being quoted as epigraph by Thomas Charlton Smith in his recent Bayleaves. Later again, in 1837, the former Holford (now Hodson) heard from Reginald Heber that his...

Landor , however, considered this the best of her books.

In reading The Father's Wedding-day, Walter Savage Landor said he pressed my temples with both hands, and tears ran down to my elbows.. He read this story over and over again, and...

EBB 's ballads have proved of particular interest to feminist critics. Dorothy Mermin argues that in this apparently most innocent, retrogressive, and sentimental of female genres, she was exploring what was to become her central...

Walter Savage Landor admired this novel.George Henry Lewes reviewed it at considerable length for the Athenæum. He considered writing convincing fiction about the Greeks an impossible task, because their ethos was so...

In response to this volume, Walter Savage Landor composed and published in the Morning Chronicle on 22 November 1845 the praiseful To Robert Browning.

Lady Blessington said of her novels to her friend Walter Savage Landor : they are written on the every-day business of life, without once entering the region of imagination. I wrote because I wanted money...

RL published her second novel, A Note in Music, which complemented her portrayal in Dusty Answer of youth as a time of enchantment.

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

ELL was a prejudiced reviewer of John Forster 's life of Walter Savage Landor , which made no mention of her, though she had been important in Landor's life. She said complacently of her review,...

This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron , Shelley , Landor , Disraeli , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Palmerston , and Sir Robert Peel .

ELL says, indeed, comparatively little of her own life, but she is an observant, vivid, astute recorder of literary personalities and anecdotes. Her major literary portraits are those of Walter Savage Landor and George Eliot .