___]]> Books]]> [Anna Barbauld]]]> Books]]> The Newcomes. Anne lived most of her adult life with her sister Harriet and Leslie Stephen, Harriet’s husband and literary journalist. Anne and Stephen continued to live together after Harriet’s early death in 1875.]]> [Anne Thackeray Ritchie]]]> Books]]>
Both brothers were great collectors: William’s donations to Glasgow University formed the basis of their Hunterian Museum, while John’s collections survive in London at the Royal College of Surgeons.]]>
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The Botanic Garden: ‘The Loves of the Plants’, a versification of Linnaean classifications, and ‘Economy of Vegetation’, a reflection on contemporary scientific theories. Darwin incorporated extensive scientific learning into his poetry and in the accompanying notes. His insights into natural history and evolutionary thought anticipated the theory of natural selection of his grandson, Charles Darwin.]]> [Erasmus Darwin]]]> Books]]> Evelina (1778), was written in secret. She told only her brother and sister about her plans to publish her own work. She disguised her handwriting to prevent printers from associating the work with the Burney family.]]> [Frances Burney]]]> Books]]> Brave New World (1932), he began his authorial career as a poet. Leda (1920) was the third major collection Huxley published by age 26. Critics often read this work as representing the height of Huxley’s poetic talent and signaling his turn to fiction writing.]]> Aldous Huxley]]> Books]]> A Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of this legendary detective. Doyle made several unsuccessful attempts to publish this work before it finally appeared in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887. The following year it was published in book form, featuring six illustrations by his father.]]> Arthur Conan Doyle]]> Books]]> The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde published the poem anonymously, signing the work C.3.3. (cell block C, landing 3, cell 3). The poem sold well and quickly, going through seven editions in just over one year.  This copy is a fifth edition.]]> C.3.3 (Oscar Wilde)]]> Books]]> Evelina (1778), only after it became successful, and even then he approached it ‘with fear & trembling,’ wondering whether 'she c[oul]d write a book worth reading'.]]> Charles Burney]]> Books]]> Charles Darwin]]> Manuscripts]]> On the Origin of Species (1859). With his botanist son Francis (1848-1925), he co-authored The Power of Movement in Plants. In addition to his research on botanical genetics, Francis Darwin published Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History (1917), a series of essays that reflected the influences of his family.]]> Charles Darwin (assisted by Francis Darwin)]]> Books]]> Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), was one of Wilde’s favourite books, and critics have noted the thematic resonances between it and Wilde’s own novels. One obvious influence of Maturin is in Wilde’s choice of the pseudonym ‘Sebastian Melmoth’, which he adopted upon his release from Reading Gaol. Wilde explained his reason to a friend: ‘to prevent postmen having fits I sometimes have my letters inscribed by the name of a curious novel by my great-uncle Maturin’.]]> Charles Maturin]]> Books ]]> Germ, a magazine edited by her brother, the literary critic William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).]]> Christina Rossetti]]> Books]]> Christina Rossetti dedicated Goblin Market and The Prince’s Progress to her mother ‘in all reverence and love.’ Her brother Dante created the memorable illustrations for both books.

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Poems to his brother and fellow Pre-Raphaelite, William Michael Rossetti.]]> Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]> Books]]> Lady into Fox. Garnett maintained intimate relationships with members of the Bloomsbury Group, including with painter Duncan Grant (1885-1978), the father of his second wife, artist Angelica Bell (1918-2012).]]> David Garnett]]> Books]]> The Examiner. Known for its sharp wit and radical commentary, the journal published early work from John Keats, Percy Shelley, and William Hazlitt. A critique of the Prince Regent in 1813 landed the Hunt brothers in prison for two years, but it also brought in new readers. This issue dates from 1831 – a few years after the Hunt brothers had sold their interests in the weekly to the journalist Albany Fonblanque – but it remained an important political paper well into the Victorian era: Thackeray and Dickens were later contributors.]]> Edited by Albany Fonblanque]]> Periodicals]]> Examiner. These included the Indicator (1819-1821), which first published one of the most famous poems of British Romanticism, John Keats’s ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’. Hunt perhaps proposed the pseudonym ‘Caviare’, a reference to Hamlet, Act II, scene II: ‘’twas / caviare to the general’. The pseudonym links Keats with Shakespeare and challenges reviewers who had dismissed Keats’s previous work.]]> Edited by Leigh Hunt]]> Periodicals]]> Dictionary of National Biography. He contributed 283 entries, among them the lives of his father, Sir James Stephen (1789-1859), and his father-in-law, William Makepeace Thackeray.]]> Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee]]> Books]]> Bleak House (1853). Thornton Hunt (1810-1873), the eldest of Leigh and Marianne Hunt’s seven children, prepared this posthumous collection of his father’s letters. Best known today as editor of his father’s collected works, Thornton was also a noted journalist, eventually serving as editor of the Daily Telegraph.]]> Edited by Thornton Hunt]]> Books]]> Journal that inspired her brother William's famous poem 'Daffodils'.]]> Edited by William Knight]]> Books]]> Edward Immyns Abbot]]> Painting]]> Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Translated by Constance Garnett)]]> Books]]> Dio e l’Uomo [God and Man], first published in 1833. His four children – Maria, Dante, William, and Christina – all carried on their familial legacy, becoming celebrated writers, poets, and painters.]]> Gabriele Rossetti]]> Books]]>