Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press.
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Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Ross
's epilogue both praises FD
's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin
, John Wesley
, and Voltaire
. Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press. 205-6 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Victoria Cross | Theodora is clever, rich (and destined to lose her fortune if she marries), and understood to be peculiar or extraordinary; her admirer Cecil contrasts her to the conventional opening-primrose type of woman for having a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances's father, Francis Darwin
, later Sir Francis, was a Cambridge
botanist. He had earlier worked as an assistant and secretary to his father, Charles Darwin
. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | The whole family of Darwins and their relations formed almost a separate society—gentle, religiously agnostic, geared to scholarship but not to worldly success—both at Cambridge, where they all lived near each other, and on visits... |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin
, and she published anecdotes... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
politics | Frances Power Cobbe | The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot
to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords
, her bill was countered in the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The title piece, from April 1871, was an admiring review of Darwin
's The Descent of Man: she considered it doubtless one whose issue will make an era in the history of modern thought... |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau
. While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice. Skabarnicki, Anne M. “Two Faces of Eve: The Literary Personae of Harriet Martineau and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. The Carlyle Annual, Vol. 11 , pp. 15-30. 20 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | In Sic Vos Non VobiAC
rejects accepted knowledge of the spiritual realm. Instead, the speaker sympathizes with the scientific community of Darwinian
evolutionary theorists who search for Truth and Right with steadfast hearts in... |
Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
Education | Elizabeth Bowen | EB
attended Downe House School
, which then occupied Charles Darwin
's former house at Downe inKent. Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. 38, 43 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mathilde Blind | The Ascent of Man gathers together a number of longer and shorter poems (written with immense energy in varying metres), but through the whole runs the theme of human life springing from a struggle for... |
Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | The Ascent of Man was hailed in the press. The Academy reviewer wrote: A reviewer who is so fortunate as to light on a book like this, lays it down with regret, and fears that... |
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