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Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
was a very social person who made friends wherever she went. A visit in 1826 to the Frere family at Hampstead allowed her to meet several interesting characters: the poet Samuel Coleridge
, the... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Grant | Reduced financial circumstances did not prevent EG
from meeting interesting people. In May 1823, when she went to visit an uncle who lived close to Hampstead Heath, she met at dinners the writers Joanna Baillie |
Friends, Associates | Thomas De Quincey | He was acquainted with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and William Wordsworth
. His relationship with the latter was often troubled because Wordsworth disapproved of his opium use and his relationship with Margaret Simpson. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Editor Lindop, Grevel, Oxford University Press, 1985. viii |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | The young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
walked forty miles in order to meet ALB
and her husband
. He had already been influenced by her poetry, and she had reviewed his. McCarthy, William et al. “Introduction”. The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, University of Georgia Press, 1994, p. xxi - xlvi. xlv McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 399-400 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | After Wollstonecraft's death, and Fenwick's departure from England, it seems unlikely that MH
found female friends to replace them, though she knew well such people as Elizabeth Inchbald
, Anna Letitia Barbauld
, and Charles |
Friends, Associates | Mary Shelley | Visitors to the family included William Wordsworth
, William Hazlitt
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Holcroft
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
and Maria Edgeworth
. Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. 27-8 Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown, 1989. 40-1 Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge, 1988. 11 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She once took her friend and ex-teacher Frances Arabella Rowden
to hear Coleridge
lecture, and sat on tenterhooks as he belittled certain popular poems and seemed about to include one of Rowden's. Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62. 58 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, once ALB
's protegé, began a series of public attacks on her writing in lectures. He deplored the way traditional nursery stories were giving way to tales inculcating insipid goodyness. qtd. in McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 445 |
Friends, Associates | William Hazlitt | The direction of WH
's life was shaped by his early meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, and through him with William
and Dorothy Wordsworth
. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | On a visit to the Lake District in the early 1830s AS
met Wordsworth
and Coleridge
. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 24 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | An evening at Thomas Monkhouse
's London home brought together Wordsworth
, Coleridge
, Charles Lamb
, Thomas Moore
, and Samuel Rogers
. Mary Lamb
, also present, is unmentioned in Charles's account. Burton, Sarah. A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb. Viking, 2003. 323-6 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Although their meetings were cordial, Lamb criticised her, as well as her writings, as an intellectual woman. He commented to Coleridge
that (apart from Elizabeth Inchbald
) he found clever women impudent, forward, unfeminine, and... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | At this time MW
's achievements were admired by Southey
, Coleridge
, and many English Jacobins who felt themselves oppressed. Her friends included Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Robinson
, and more warmly Eliza Fenwick |
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