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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Constance Naden | CN
argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 73 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Naden | Hughes regarded the most important essay here as the first, Summary of Results, which selectively sketches the history of philosophy insofar as it bears on CN
's own interests. He also judged the second,... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie... |
Education | H. G. Wells | Having initially left school at thirteen, HGW
later attended the Normal School
which later became the Royal College of Science. His most important teacher and inspiration was Thomas Huxley
. He failed his final exams... |
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