Over the years, RM
published several dozen literary articles in a wide range of magazines, newspapers, and commemorative volumes. She wrote on past and contemporary literary figures, including Leslie Stephen
, Stella Benson
, Rebecca West
Travel
Vernon Lee
VL
was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson
and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen
, Robert Browning
Textual Features
Q. D. Leavis
QDL
's thesis was influenced by various sources as well as her husband's dissertation. As Ian MacKillop
notes, her work recalls Wordsworth
's campaign against the gross and violent stimulants
qtd. in
MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane, 1995.
Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978.
274-5, 278
Textual Production
Thomas Hardy
This time the title comes from Thomas Gray
. Sir Leslie Stephen
was responsible for the acceptance of this novel, which is remarkable for its independent-minded, property-owning heroine.
Friends, Associates
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
During these years she met some leading liberal thinkers, such as John Stuart Mill
(whom she heard in the House as he moved his suffrage amendment to the Reform Bill on 20 May 1867, less...
Literary responses
Anne Damer
Respect for her work as an artist continued to be voiced through the nineteenth century. Where she was criticised (by Leslie Stephen
in the Dictionary of National Biography, for instance) it was not directly...
Education
Dorothy Bussy
Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain