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Textual Features | Elizabeth Jenkins | She describes how Tennyson, suffering from depression or nervous complaints, turned to Dr James Manby Gully and his celebrated Malvern water cure. She ranks Gully's medical abilities and his record of healing very highly. She... |
Textual Features | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | |
Travel | Henry James | HJ
travelled in England and Europe. While in England he introduced himself to some of the most important writers of the day, including George Eliot
, George Henry Lewes
, and Charles Darwin
. Tóibín, Colm. “A Man with My Trouble”. London Review of Books, pp. 15-18. 16 Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon. 365 Gale, Robert L. A Henry James Encyclopedia. Greenwood. xix |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | DG
's essay presents a religiously-based argument emphasizing the importance of education and instruction for those with mental or physical disabilities. She reminds her readers that these conditions are to be looked upon as the... |
Textual Features | Sarah Grand | The Heavenly Twins, SG
's most famous novel, treats a variety of social and gender issues, including female sexuality, unhappy marriages, women's social roles, the sexual double standard, and venereal disease. Ideala, heroine of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
's father, Samuel Conway
, was a Congregational minister, who was apparently given to quoting John Stuart Mill
in his sermons and found little to dispute in Darwin
's The Origin of Species. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 59 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | John Bruce Glasier, also a founding member of the Independent Labour Party
and NAC
, was a devoted socialist like KBG
, an aspiring poet, a determined agnostic, and at the end of his life... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The poem burlesqued social conservatism in the accents of a reform Darwin
ist through the resolution of a prehistoric Eohippus to become a horse (evolution converting his middle finger-nail into a hoof), and of an... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | It follows protagonist John Robertson after he awakens from a thirty-year bout of amnesia in 1940. John quickly learns that much has changed in America (particularly the New York City area) since 1910. The... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Giberne | AG
deals briskly and summarily with new scientific ideas, apparently with reference to Darwin
's Origin of Species (dating from fourteen years earlier). Mr Chetwynd, though he doubts the efficacy of the individual's direct line... |
Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer
... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 119-23 |
Textual Production | Florence Dixie | She dedicated it on 24 July To the late Charles Darwin
, Esq. . . . by one who was honoured with his friendship, and to whom his works have ever been a source of... |
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