Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press.
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Connections
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|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Austin | In the same year SA
's Life of Carsten Niebuhr, which had been previously published in essay form in 1829, appeared in the series Lives of Eminent Persons for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | A four-volume series by HM
entitled Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated was sponsored by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
and published by Charles Fox
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | The Illustrations were an immediate success and were widely read: the first number sold 5,000 copies. Lord Brougham
lamented that the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeshould be driven out of the field... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Taylor | In 1833 HT
contributed a chapter on the life of William Caxton
to Lives of Eminent Persons, a volume published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
. Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press. 237 |
| Textual Production | Mary Somerville | On behalf of the Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge
, Henry, Lord Brougham
, wrote to MS
's husband
to propose that she translate into English the advanced French astronomical mathematics of Laplace
's Méchanique Céleste. Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16. 211, 214 Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers. 161-2 |
| Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | The narrator is a male invalid named Phineas Fletcher, a descendent of the poet
(1582-1650) whose name he shares. He has an intense (at least on his side) homosocial relationship with the title character. |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | HM
had been surprised, on encountering Jane Marcet
's Conversations of Political Economy in autumn 1827, to discover that she herself had been teaching political economy unawares in two early stories, The Rioters and The... |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | When Lord Brougham
became aware of Illustrations of Political Economy, about six months into the series, he solicited HM
's help in promoting pending revisions to the poor laws (which were passed in the... |
| Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | In 1826 HPBB
founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
and at about the same date played an instrumental role towards the founding of London University
. He authored several critical and historical... |
| Literary responses | Catherine Gore | Reviews, like that in the Athenæum, were good in the main, and singled out the dialogue for praise even if critical of the character drawing, the plotting, or the level of finish. The Times... |
Timeline
1826: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge...
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1826
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
was founded by Lord Brougham
.
1827: Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series...
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1827
Constable's Miscellany, a prolific series of affordable books, was established.
31 March 1832: The first mass-circulation magazine, the...
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31 March 1832
The first mass-circulation magazine, the Penny Magazine, appeared, published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
.
1842: Charles Knight, publisher for the Society...
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1842
Charles Knight
, publisher for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
, issued his Store of Knowledge.
1844: At Harriet Martineau's urging, the English...
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1844
At Harriet Martineau
's urging, the English Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
issued an anthology of writings by American women millworkers, Mind Among the Spindles, written by employees at the Merrimack Manufacturing Corporation
29 April 1852: Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget published...
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29 April 1852
Physician and polymath Peter Mark Roget
published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; it went through 25 editions in its first two decades, and remained an influential writing tool into the twenty-first century.
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