Washington Irving

MS turned down a marriage proposal from actor-manager John Payne , a friend of Washington Irving .

While in Paris, they were invited to spend time at the country estate La Grange, owned by General Lafayette , who had fought during the French Revolution.FT reportedly made an excellent...

MS also met the leading women writers of her later years: Jane Porter , Catherine Gore , Caroline Norton , and LEL . She was friendly, too, with Thomas Moore , Prosper Mérimée , Washington Irving

Though Sara Josepha Hale , author of Woman's Record, called Houstoun a lively, fluent writer, this is the first and last compliment offered in a review which is kept brief because even the...

FK made her Washington debut, playing to an audience that included John Quincy Adams and Washington Irving .

It was published the following month, ascribed to the Author of The Gamester, with a dedication to the future George I . This political gamble (with Queen Anne still on...

She had met Caldecott in June 1879, when she already warmly admired his illustrations for works by Washington Irving . She specifically asked him for a picture of a fair-haired boy riding a red-haired pony...

Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...

A measure of her success as a writer is the fact that in 1834 CMS was one of only two women (the other was Martha Washington ) chosen for inclusion in the National Portrait Gallery...

GA 's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott , and by historians including Americans Washington Irving and William H. Prescott .

IH 's other translations are Chateaubriand 's The Last of the Abencerages (included, with her name, in the Standard Novels edition of Washington Irving 's Tales of the Alhambra, 1835); the same author's Sketches...

She includes a few poems on literary subjects: sonnets on the works of John Milton and William Cowper (as edited by Robert Southey ), a sonnet about reading her own youthful diary, and another on...

Before leaving New York for Toronto, ABJ met Washington Irving and John Jacob Astor .