James Russell Lowell

Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve...

MB 's home was open to frequent visitors, and American writer James Russell Lowell wrote that no knock could surprise the modest door . . . for it has opened and still opens to let...

EBB 's disembodied participation in literary and artistic society expanded as she established often voluminous correspondences with Harriet Martineau , Richard Hengist Horne , painter Benjamin Robert Haydon , and American literati such as James Russell Lowell

One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Oliver Wendell Holmes joined forces to get her invited...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan , Sir George Grove , Edmund Gosse and his wife Ellen , John Morley , and her uncle Matthew Arnold

The narrative in Milly's First Love revolves around a young woman's courtship and marriage. Written with a light descriptive style, MV 's charming tale concludes with her protagonist's naive marriage to an impolite older gentleman...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

Her contemporary James Russell Lowell , commenting on these works, wrote that MB was known formerly as a vivacious amateur authoress, and that these catalogues of the art treasures at Longleat and Panshanger have a...

Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson , Arnold , Robert Browning , Margaret Oliphant , T. H. Huxley , and James Russell Lowell was formed to devise a memorial to DMC in Tewkesbury...

Staying at Pisa with her new husband , EBB sent her dramatic monologue The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point to James Russell Lowell ; it appeared next year in the Boston abolitionist gift-book The Liberty...

Poet and editor W. E. Henley , printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. Henley introduced...