Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
15
, No. 3, pp. 390-11. 400
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Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, pp. 390-11. 400 |
Textual Production | Isabella Bird | After IB
's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone
, other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications. 179 |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | In April 1862 FN
had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office
and with Gladstone
to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing... |
Textual Features | Josephine Butler | Using St Catherine as an example, JB
sets out to illustrate the degree to which the efforts and endeavours of a single person can have significant impact on the society in which they live. After... |
Textual Features | Lucy Knox | The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of... |
Textual Features | Eliza Meteyard | Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone
, The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Textual Features | F. Mabel Robinson | The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Compared with its predecessor, said Johns
, this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 134 |
Residence | Edna Lyall | EL
moved from Lincoln to Eastbourne in 1884 Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 53 |
Reception | John Oliver Hobbes | After the opening of Journeys End in Lovers' Meeting, JOH
invited by Gladstone
to read it to him while he was recovering from a cataract operation. Ellen Terry
purchased the acting rights to the... |
Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | William S. Peterson
has published a monograph study of Robert Elsmere's genesis and reception. It was unusual in provoking sustained rebuttals of its argument, and those not just from Gladstone
but from critics and... |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |
Reception | Eliza Meteyard | It was granted by William Gladstone
at the instigation of Mary
and William Howitt
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Publishing | Anna Brassey | By 1877, AB
's writing also appeared in major periodicals including Fraser's Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Contemporary Review. In the latter, she published her diary from an 1885 voyage to Norway... |
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