Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun | Because her husband
, like her father
, was well-connected, MCH
was introduced to a number of significant literary and social figures. She had vivid memories of meeting Henry Hallam
, Samuel Rogers
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Although William Wordsworth
can be regarded as mediator between Kate Southey
and CB
, he was convinced that Bowles was at fault. The entire Wordsworth clan, and Sara Coleridge
, allied themselves with Southey's youngest... |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
met Henry Crabb Robinson
and William Wordsworth
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence. Editor Sadler, Thomas, 3rd ed., Macmillan, 1872, 2 vols. 1: 200 |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | Her playmates included Edith Southey
and Dora Wordsworth
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 25 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. |
Friends, Associates | Lucy Aikin | LA
dined with Crabb Robinson
, Wordsworth
, Henry Coleridge
, and her niece Anna Letitia Le Breton
and nephew-in-law Philip Hemery Le Breton
. Robinson, Henry Crabb. Diary. 142 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | In Nottingham MH
met L. E. L.
and perhaps Elizabeth Fry
. She was visited by Mary
and Dora Wordsworth
(wife and daughter of the poet), and later she and her husband stayed with the... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | AP
's parents entertained a circle of well-known literary personages, including Leigh Hunt
, William Hazlitt
, Thomas Moore
, Wordsworth
, Tennyson
, Longfellow
, and Henry James
. Intimates of the household included... |
Friends, Associates | William Harrison Ainsworth | At his home in Kensal Green he hosted many Victorian literary lions including Charles Dickens
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, Douglas Jerrold
, William Wordsworth
, and illustrator and collaborator George Cruikshank
. Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992, 3 vols. |
Friends, Associates | Annie Tinsley | She was immeasurably excited, at an early age, by meeting William Wordsworth
. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930. 8 |
Friends, Associates | Cecil Frances Alexander | The writers whom CFA
most admired during her childhood were Scott
, Gray
, and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth
and Byron
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A Christian and political radical, STC
associated with William Godwin
and Robert Southey
. William Wordsworth
wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen... |
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 | Charlotte Smith | CS
met Helen Maria Williams
during her brief visit to revolutionary France. She provided an introduction to Williams for William Wordsworth
(who had in fact met or perhaps merely seen her already) before he too... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wordsworth | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | She wrote comments in letters about famous men, finding Thomas Campbella pretty little, delicate finical gentleman qtd. in Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol. 66 , Charles Lamb Society, Apr. 1989, pp. 53-62. 58 |
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