John Wordsworth

Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. It was in...

MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...

John Wordsworth says the titles that AM gave her brother's sermons were evidences of her power and insight, while her memoir of him was one of the most beautiful pieces of work of this...

John Wordsworth calls this book wonderful for its sympathy and its fidelity; wonderful for its reserve and its unreserve; wonderful for its grasp of detail and its breadth of good sense.AM , he...

John Wordsworth warmly praised AM 's writing in general as combining an almost manly vigour with feminine sweetness and refinement.

Bishop John Wordsworth wrote in his posthumous memoir of AM that no one out of her own family circle knew or even suspected that she practised authorship and editing work as an occupation. When she...

Besides domestic work (such as housekeeping for her brother Thomas), AM was a pioneer in designing and embroidering church vestments from medieval patterns found in the work of Augustus Pugin , long before this became...

George Eliot not only praised this review in a letter, but also instructed her publisher to send a copy of her next novel, The Mill on the Floss, to Bentley's expressly so that it...

John Wordsworth later singled out AM 's article on Thomas Gray (published at a time when eighteenth-century poetry in general was very decidedly out of fashion) as being as sympathetic and fresh as anything which...

This collection incorporates a memoir by John Wordsworth , Bishop of Salisbury.

MAW responded to a lecture by the Rev. John Wordsworth with an anonymous pamphlet, Unbelief and Sin: A Protest Addressed to Those Who Attended the Bampton Lecture of Sunday, March 6.

This lecture, given by the orthodox clergyman Rev. John Wordsworth (nephew of the poet ), had greatly angered her. From this time on, she regularly wrote reviews and essays, and she later remarked that the...

The first of AM 's publications (all her works were anonymous, and were first identified as hers in the memoir by Bishop John Wordsworth ) appeared this year: an anthology entitled Passages from the Poets.

AM readied for publication—that is, for practical purposes, edited—a series of the works of her younger brother, J. B. Mozley , Professor of Theology at Oxford . She is remembered as the posthumous editor of...