Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Publishing | Constance Naden | William R. Hughes
counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN
from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Other Life Event | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | After the scandal, those involved returned to lives of relative anonymity. The impact on Edward Lane
's professional life was negligible. He continued to recieve patients at Moor Park (among them Charles Darwin
), and... |
| Occupation | Herbert Spencer | Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Naden | CN
wrote a letter on this date thanking for a favourable review. The Story of Claricewas written during her convalescence, after a sharp attack of illness, in 1886, just as other poems dated from... |
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Leighton
and Reynolds
suggest that this poem, together with Barrett Browning
's Aurora Leigh, is one of the few bold attempts to tackle the woman question in verse and it is clearly influenced by... |
| 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 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 281 |
| Literary responses | L. S. Bevington | The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin
read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 9: 228 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Webb | As a child Mary Meredith (later MW
) wrote stories for her younger brothers and sisters. She first had her writing published after the family moved to Stanton-on-Hine Heath, in the parish magazine. Davies, Linda. Mary Webb Country. Palmers Press. 4 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ruth Padel | The poems here, addressing the circumstances of Darwin
's life, employ a scaffolding of his own words, forcefully shaped, against a background of many other voices (including that of an orangutan in a zoo). They... |
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