William Wordsworth

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Standard Name: Wordsworth, William

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Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...
Residence Mary Augusta Ward
She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW and her brother William arrived at midnight at Racedown Lodge in northern Dorset, a house offered to them rent-free by West India merchant John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had become friendly with...
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
William and DW moved from Racedown in Dorset to Alfoxden House, four miles from Nether Stowey in Somerset, at the foot of the Quantock Hills, in order to be close to Coleridge and...
Residence Harriet Martineau
She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold
Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW and her brother , after their time abroad and after staying seven months with the Hutchinsons at Sockburn-on-Tees, arrived at the cottage they had rented at Grasmere, later (after the Wordsworths' time) named...
Residence Dora Carrington
Carrington loved and was creatively inspired by their new home. She compared it to Dorothy and William Wordsworth 's Lake District arrangements.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
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Residence Eliza Fletcher
In 1840 William WordsworthhelpedEF to buy Lancrigg in Easedale, Cumberland.
Gill, Stephen. William Wordsworth. A Life. Clarendon, 1989.
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Joanna Baillie observed that she had built herself a nest in that romantic nook though her winter residence is in Edin[bu]r[gh].
Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols.
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Residence Dorothy Wordsworth
DW , with William and Mary Wordsworth and their family, moved from Dove Cottage to Allan Bank, another rented house in Grasmere.
Moorman, Mary. William Wordsworth: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1957–1965, 2 vols.
2: 133-4
Residence E. M. Delafield
During EMD 's childhood, her family had a country estate at The Falls, Llandogo, Monmouthshire. The house (now a nursing home) stands near Tintern Abbey (scene of a famous poem by Wordsworth ). EMD
Textual Features Valentine Ackland
Warner and Ackland point out in a Note to the Reader, which is a kind of manifesto, that the text is not a collaboration, but rather a joint collection of their poetry. They explain...
Textual Features Rosamund Marriott Watson
In addition to reviews, RMW contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley who had died...
Textual Features Freya Stark
Despite the generality of her introduction, Stark relates her particular experiences in Aden, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq. She depicts the Arab character through detailed descriptions and through...
Textual Features Ann Yearsley
Though she avoids apology and excessive humility, AY seeks sympathy in this volume by touching on her own poverty and suffering. She perhaps took this technique from the craze for Goethe 's Werther, which...
Textual Features Marghanita Laski
She insists that even Jane Austen . . . could write letters of a bitchiness and coarseness not inferrable from the impeccable sense of human values in her books.
Laski, Marghanita. “To the Editor: ’George Eliot and Her World’”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3725, 27 July 1973, p. 869.
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She posits an underlying double...

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