Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press.
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Occupation | Freya Stark | FS
was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons
, and was soon... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna Lyall | She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy
, a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons
to hear debates on Ireland, and... |
Literary responses | B. M. Croker | BMC
was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | Lewes
, who wrote that if the book was not a hit I will never more trust my judgement in such matters, Eliot, George. The George Eliot Letters. Editor Haight, Gordon S., Yale University Press. 3: 10 |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | The intellectual influence of CM
's History was particularly important for the generation of American patriots who shaped the United States. Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press. 184-5 |
Literary responses | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Virginia Woolf
read this novel soon after its publication, with fascinated disapproval. She felt that MAH
had energy and ability, and the wits to construct the method of telling a story, but that she had... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Bowles | An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey
's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to the House of Commons
. Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate. 103 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sylvia Pankhurst | During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen
toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP
(at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by... |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | In London, Ouida
took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel
, where in one night she entertained Robert Browning
, Oscar Wilde
, Robert Lytton
, and Lord Ronald Gower
... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Bloomsbury came to designate a new sensibility in philosophy, literature, art, and politics, and its growth has been linked with the crucial break between the Edwardians and the Georgians, the point when human character... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Stockdale | MS
's father, John Stockdale
, having been acquitted for publishing a libel (attacking the House of Commons
over Warren Hastings
), himself printed The Whole Proceedings on the Trial . . . against John Stockdale. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 70 (1790): 582 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Clara Balfour | Clara Lucas
, who was not yet sixteen, married James Balfour
, who worked in the Ways and Means Office in the House of Commons
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Kirk, John Foster, and S. Austin Allibone, editors. A Supplement to Allibone’s Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J. B. Lippincott. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Linda Villari | LV
's father, James White
, was a silk merchant during her childhood and adolescence. Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Richardson | Elizabeth, Lady Ashburnham
, became (at St Giles in the Fields in London) the second wife of Sir Thomas Richardson
, then Speaker of the House of Commons
and Chief Justice. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Thomas Richardson |
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