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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 15 |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | 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... |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
politics | Emily Faithfull | EF
reluctantly declined to stand for the London School Board
, following the resignation of T. H. Huxley
, because of her commitments to other activities. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 284 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir Charles Lyell
, and Sir William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | AH
's paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley
, was a famous biologist who died just a year after his grandson's birth. When he was six Aldous attended, with his entire family, the unveiling of a... |
Textual Features | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
politics | Sophia Jex-Blake | She aimed to establish credibility for a female medical college by gathering an impressive group of physicians. They included the editor of the British Medical Journal, Ernest Hart
, Thomas Henry Huxley
, Dr... |
Literary responses | George Henry Lewes | A hostile notice by T. H. Huxley
in the Westminster Review (owned by John Chapman
) dismissed Lewes as an amateur and ranked his book below Harriet Martineau
's recent abridgement of Comte. George Eliot |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later... |