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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Sarah Austin | During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton. 22 |
politics | Sarah Austin | Parental influences inclined both SA
and her husband towards radicalism and ultra-Liberal opinions. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press. 26 |
Residence | Sarah Austin | After they were married, the couple moved to No. 1 Queen Square, Westminster; their neighbours included Mill
and Bentham
. Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray. 35 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | John Austin
was a pupil of Bentham
, and intimate with all the friends of his master. Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray. vii Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press. 29 |
Literary Setting | Angela Carter | Fevvers was hatched from an egg and raised in a brothel, and sold herself into slavery to help her foster family. With the touring circus, she migrates from London to the Siberian wilderness (it turns... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charles Dickens | Hard Times is also an attack on Bentham
ite Utilitarianism. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | John Austin
, Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton. 14 |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Friends of LDG
's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham
, theCarlyles
, James Mill
, Macaulay
, and Sydney Smith
. Her own childhood friends included her... |
Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
Textual Features | John Stuart Mill | The creed or philosophy of Utilitarianism held that human actions ought to be directed towards (in the well-known phrase of Jeremy Bentham
) the greatest happiness of the greatest number. Mill argued that utility is... |
Education | John Stuart Mill | |
Friends, Associates | John Stuart Mill | He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham
through his father. He also associated with John Austin
and George Grote
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. 38, 51 |
Travel | John Stuart Mill | In 1820 and 1821 he spent time studying in France with Bentham
's brother Samuel
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press. vii, 39 |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
Education | Florence Nightingale | Florence received a liberal education from her father. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |