Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Regency England GS met Coleridge , Southey , and Byron . Jane Austen , however, made a point of avoiding her.

ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...

Among her nineteenth-century visitors were Samuel Taylor Coleridge (brought by Joseph Cottle the Bristol bookseller),Algernon Knox (a precursor of late Victorian High Churchmanship), Anna Letitia Barbauld , Elizabeth Fry , and a goodly...

Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...

Within a few months of his death, Coleridge wrote into a copy of his own poems, beside This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Ch. And Mary Lamb—dear to my heart, yea, as it were my...

EF was well known to many of the English radicals of the 1790s: besides those already mentioned, she knew Charlotte Smith and Samuel Taylor Coleridge . A particularly close and lifelong friend was Mary Hays

SC had begun to experiment with opium (like her father ), which undoubtedly contributed to her worsening depression.

One of Mary Lamb 's bouts of madness seems to have been brought on by agitation about the break between Coleridge and theWordsworths .

MS and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge 's lectures at the Royal Institution

QDL 's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop notes, her work recalls Wordsworth 's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants of his time.She quotes...

The title recalls Coleridge 's ancient mariner, and the moment at which, unaware, he blesses the water snakes and finds himself once more able to pray: as if the transcendental, natural world has forgiven him...

In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...

The central character is the undowered girl Florence Leslie—so called because of her birth in Italy—whose high-minded principles have been fuelled by indiscriminate reading in history, poetry, and romance at an early age...

Anna Seward , in letters which were to be published in AR 's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism.Nathan Drake called Radcliffe the Shakespeare of Romance Writers...

In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning 's Oh, the little more, and how much it is! the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...