Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Oliphant | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | The sketches, which purported to have been found in a trunk of old manuscripts, are humorous. One of them, Hints on Snubbing, falls squarely into the tradition of Jane Collier
's An Essay on... |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle
was the first to prepare a collection of JWC
's letters for publication. Shortly after her death in 1866—full of sorrow at her loss and regret at his neglect of her—he began assembling... |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, published in London and New York, consists of letters Froude
chose not to include in his earlier edition of Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Justifying this collection, Carlyle's nephew Alexander cited Froude
's previous violation of the Carlyles' intimate relationship and argued that publishing the full collection of their early letters to one another would serve as purifying air... |
| Textual Production | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's essay The City of the Sun sprang from her three-day ride, alone but for a hired dragoman, to the ruins at Baalbec. It was the first of her twenty-eight essays to appear... |
| Textual Production | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, edited by J. A. Froude
and heavily annotated by Thomas Carlyle
, was published. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2893 (1883): 435 Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green. |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | Like the earlier Mary Barton, North and South was set in a manufacturing district, in Manchester rechristened Milton. However, North and South focuses on the alliance between the gentry and the emergent industrial middle... |
| Textual Features | Geraldine Jewsbury | Zoe reflects GJ
's own lifelong spiritual crisis. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 223-4 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 72 |
| Reception | Mary Augusta Ward | |
| Reception | Jane Welsh Carlyle | In response to Froude
's critique of theCarlyles
' marriage in Reminiscences, Margaret Oliphant
published a glowing account of her friendship with the couple in Macmillan's Magazine. Carlyle, Jane Welsh. “Editorial Materials”. Jane Welsh Carlyle: A New Selection of Her Letters, edited by Trudy Bliss, Victor Gollancz, p. various pages. 345 Trela, Dale J. “Margaret Oliphant’s ‘bravest words yet spoken’ on Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. Carlyle Studies Annual, Vol. 18 , pp. 153-66. 163 |
| Publishing | Sarah Tytler | ST
found in J. A. Froude
of Fraser's Magazine a very agreeable editor who gave his contributors a free hand, was sympathetic, could pay a cordial compliment, while such criticism as he offered was gentle... |
| Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | In January 1850 GJ
published a controversial article entitled Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism in the radical Westminster Review. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold
responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press. 299 |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Charles | By 1848, EC
was praised by such notable people as historian J. A. Froude
and Alfred Lord Tennyson
, who read her early manuscripts. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 629 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 340 |
Timeline
1849: J. A. Froude, writing as Zeta published his...
Writing climate item
1849
J. A. Froude
, writing as Zeta published his novelThe Nemesis of Faith.
1856: J. A. Froude published the first volumes...
Writing climate item
1856
J. A. Froude
published the first volumes of his influential twelve-volume History of England from the Death of Cardinal Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada; it was completed in 1870.
November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...
Building item
November 1860
Thomas Hill Green
became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College
.
21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...
Building item
21 April 1869
The Metaphysical Society
was founded; women were excluded.
1888: J. A. Froude published his influential and...
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1888
J. A. Froude
published his influential and imperialist The English in the West Indies.
Texts
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Froude, James Anthony. “Review of Harriet Martineau’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development</span>”;. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol.
43
, p. 418.