HopkinsвЂ™s brother Lionel (1854-1952) sustained the family interest in languages. HopkinsвЂ™s youngest sister, Grace (1857-1945), set some of his poems to music and composed accompaniments for HopkinsвЂ™s melodies for poems by Richard Watson Dixon and Robert Bridges. She helped Robert Bridges publish the first edition of HopkinsвЂ™s poems. HopkinsвЂ™s sister Kate (1856-1933) shared her brotherвЂ™s love of languages, humor, and sketching. HopkinsвЂ™s sister Milicent (1849-1946) was originally interested in music but eventually became an вЂњout-sisterвЂќ of All SaintsвЂ™ Home, an Anglican sisterhood founded in London in 1851. This concern for art, language, and religion in HopkinsвЂ™s extended family had a direct effect on the Hopkins children. He also reviewed poetry for the London Times and wrote one novel and an essay on Longfellow, which were never published. His publications include A PhilosopherвЂ™ s Stone and Other Poems (1843), Pietas Metrica (1849), and Spicelegium Poeticum, A Gathering of Verses by Manley Hopkins (1892). He loved music and literature, passing on his fondness for puns and wordplay to his sons Gerard and Lionel and his love for poetry to Gerard especially. JohnвЂ™s in Hampstead, where he was churchwarden. Manley Hopkins was a devout High Church Anglican who taught Sunday School at St. Nor can the emphasis on religion in that poem be attributed solely to the motherвЂ™s influence. It is no accident that shipwreck, one of the firmвЂ™s primary concerns, was the subject of HopkinsвЂ™s most ambitious poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1875). Manley Hopkins was the founder of a marine insurance firm. In 1856 he helped Manley Hopkins, the poetвЂ™s father, become consul-general for Hawaii in London. He moved to Hawaii, where he learned Hawaiian and helped establish an Anglican bishopric in Honolulu. Charles Gordon Hopkins, HopkinsвЂ™s uncle, developed the family interest in languages as well as religion. In 1865 she was in London, where Hopkins met her, and after 1870 she exhibited at the Royal Academy. Her sister, Frances Ann Beechey, was a good painter, famous in North America for her documentary paintings of the Canadian voyageurs. SaviourвЂ™s Paddington, and coauthor with HopkinsвЂ™s father of the 1849 volume, Pietas Metrica Or, Nature Suggestive of God and Godliness, вЂњby the Brothers Theophilus and Theophylact.вЂќ He was married to Katherine Beechey, who, with her cousin Catherine Lloyd, maintained close contacts with the High Church Tractarian movement which deeply affected Hopkins at Oxford. His uncle Thomas Marsland Hopkins was perpetual curate at St. His aunt Anne Eleanor Hopkins tutored her nephew in sketching, painting, and music. These artistic and religious traditions were also supported by HopkinsвЂ™s paternal relations. Another maternal uncle, John Simm Smith, Jr., reinforced the religious tradition which HopkinsвЂ™s mother passed on to him Smith was churchwarden at St. HopkinsвЂ™s interest in the visual arts was also sustained by his maternal uncle, Edward Smith, who began as a lawyer but soon made painting his profession by Richard James Lane, his maternal great-uncle, an engraver and lithographer who frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy and by LaneвЂ™s daughters, Clara and Eliza (or Emily), who exhibited at the Society of Female Artists and elsewhere.

The drawings originally executed as headings on letters from her home, Blunt House, Croydon, to HopkinsвЂ™s mother and father reveal the kind of precise, detailed drawing that Hopkins was taught. Her sister Maria Smith Giberne taught Hopkins to sketch.

Better educated than most Victorian women, she was particularly fond of music and of reading, especially German philosophy and literature and the novels of Dickens.

His mother, Kate Smith Hopkins (1821-1900), was the daughter of a London physician. Born into a devout High Church Anglican family, Hopkins read from the New Testament daily at school. HopkinsвЂ™s idiosyncratic creativity was the result of interactions with others, beginning with the members of his extended family. His work was not published until 30 years after his death when his friend Robert Bridges edited the volume Poems. Upon deciding to become a priest, he burned all of his poems and did not write again for many years. However, Hopkins became estranged from his Protestant family when he converted to Roman Catholicism. HopkinsвЂ™s family encouraged his artistic talents when he was a youth in Essex, England. However, because his style was so radically different from that of his contemporaries, his best poems were not accepted for publication during his lifetime, and his achievement was not fully recognized until after World War I. Gerard Manley Hopkins is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the Victorian era.

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