Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press.
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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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | Julia Wedgwood | JW
published The Boundaries of Science in Macmillan's Magazine: a critique of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary thinking which was admired by Darwin
(her uncle by marriage). Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, p. vii - xxiii. x Wedgwood, Julia. “The Boundaries of Science”. Macmillan’s Magazine, pp. 134-8. |
Publishing | Mathilde Blind | |
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... |
Reception | Jane Austen | JA
's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney
, Anne Grant
, Mary Ann Kelty
, Maria Callcott
, Maria Jane Jewsbury
, Harriet Martineau |
Textual Features | Mary Somerville | Replete with nearly two hundred illustrations, On Molecular and Microscopic Science is divided into three sections: Atoms and Molecules of Matter, Vegetable Organisms, and Animal Organisms. The text considers the molecular makeup of matter and... |
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... |
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