Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | In this work she criticized Malthus
ian thinkers and advocated national education and sanitary conditions. |
politics | John Stuart Mill | JSM
involved himself deeply in radical politics, taking an early interest in neo-Malthus
ianism. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. 503 The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Features | Eliza Meteyard | The style is frequently Dickens
ian, and as in The Pickwick Papers the action is itinerant and the characters frequently caricatures of vice. R. W. Lightbown
, editor of the 1970 edition of EM
's... |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | For this population number of the Illustrations, HM
felt the challenge of writing about human reproduction in a way that would not broach the boundaries of delicacy and propriety. While she worked at the... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Political economy was controversial in itself, and the potentially scandalous exposition by a young unmarried female of matters having to do with population control provided grist for the mills of hostile reviewers. HM
recollected hearing... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | The second of the Garveloch tales finds Ella now a prosperous wife with many children. Drawing on Malthus
's theory that food supply, or capital, increases in a slower ratio than population, Martineau, Harriet. Weal and Woe in Garveloch. Charles Fox. 103 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Marcet | JM
probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner
and William Hyde Wollaston
; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy
. She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan
, Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi. iii, v n6 |
Literary responses | Jane Marcet | Thomas Babington Macaulay
praised this work and other political economists, like Jean-Baptiste Say
, Malthus
and Ricardo
, approved it. Although at least one edition of more than a decade after the first was respectfully... |
Education | Anne Lister | As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Caroline Lamb | In this and her final novel she followed the advice of Ugo Foscolo
, though she found it went against her grain, to choose a simple plot and build it around a single character. Douglass, Paul. Lady Caroline Lamb. Palgrave Macmillan. 225 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | In Ireland and Her Exhibition in 1865, an essay for Fraser's, FPC
considered the halving of Irish population by famine and emigration from an implicitly Malthus
ian perspective. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 155-6 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | L. S. Bevington | In the manifesto LSB
sets out the principles of anarcho-communism. She argues that because capitalist society is economically exploitative, the means for human happiness lies in the destruction of state apparatus, for [b]elief in and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Annie Besant | AB
and Bradlaugh then go on to discuss their own opinions about population growth, citing the work of Malthus
to argue that some checks must therefore exercise control over population, Bradlaugh, Charles et al. “Publishers’ Preface”. Fruits of Philosophy: An Essay on the Population Question, 2ndnd ed, Freethought Publishing, pp. 3-7. preface |
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