Thomas Arnold

He was a model student at Rugby School , where Thomas Arnold was headmaster and his son Matthew Arnold a fellow student who became a close friend of Clough's. From Rugby AHC went on to...

Eliza Cook's Journal takes the form of discrete essays by EC and others; poems, too, were included. The language is informal and conversational, though a heavy use of quotation-marks for words or phrases deemed in...

Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey , Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately . James Montgomery and Maria Edgeworth were particularly appreciative of Ann.

When someone expressed regret that the memoir is so distinctly that of a dissenter she replied with acute insight into the way that minority identity is held to be remarkable while majority identity is normative...

MJ 's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb , but also Dugald Stewart and Henry Brougham ), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice against...

A second section of the Commonplace Book is entitled Literature and Art (and covers Southey , Arnold and Thackeray ); a third section is headed Notes on Art.

Many of her friends objected to what was called her atheistic mesmerism, but Martineau's friendship with the family of Mary and Thomas Arnold , who lived at Fox How in Ambleside, remained fast.

She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold

The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas .

Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...

Thomas Arnold , the reforming Rugby headmaster, was her illustrious grandfather.

She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...

Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...

EJW published a biography of the Broad-Church advocate and hero Thomas Arnold .

EJW was a prolific Victorian novelist who wrote didactic and often sensational tales on domestic, courtship, evangelical, ecumenical (within Protestantism), and anti-Catholic themes. Apart from her nearly fifty novels, she published a book of hymns...