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Anthologization | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For a young woman who had never attended university (as she of course could not at this time) to offer a translation from a classical language was both courageous and confident. It was a long... |
Dedications | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
dedicated the work to Anna Jameson
. Parkes, Bessie Rayner. Essays on Woman’s Work. Alexander Strahan, 1865. prelims |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Writer Anna Jameson
played an important role in the lives of these two women, acting in a maternal role, encouraging Parkes in her poetic endeavours and Smith in her artistic projects. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the English Woman’s Journal”. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 112 - 38. 114 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Mary Russell Mitford
was another who knew FK
well even apart from their connection through the theatre. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy KinghamEditor , Harper and Brothers, 1870. 2: 119-20 |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | BLSB
's other prominent women friends included Adelaide Procter
, Anna Mary Howitt
(Mary
's daughter), and Anna Brownell Jameson
. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 58, 71 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | Harriet Siddons was the widow of Sarah Siddons
's youngest son, the actor-manager Henry
. While in Edinburgh, FK
met Anna Jameson
and engaged in frivolous courtships. Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977. 28, 42 Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 33 |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe |
Friends, Associates | Jessie White Mario | JWM
employed Anna Jameson
's niece and biographer Gerardine Bate Macpherson
as her personal secretary. Gerardine lived in with the Marios for a year, until she died in 1878 (in Jessie's arms). Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 179 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | While in London, ER
renewed old friendships and established new. She socialized with Sir Edwin Henry Landseer
, John Wilson Croker
, Henry Chorley
, Lord Lansdowne
, and Anna Jameson
(with whom she corresponded)... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | For nearly six years she was an invalid, though she was able to work very productively for the first few years and remained well enough to receive visitors. She was helped financially by two female... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Closest to CMS
were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble
were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Ada Byron | AAB
remained close friends with Mary Somerville's family, and particularly with her eldest son by her first marriage, Woronzow Greig
, for the rest of her life. Somerville not only fostered Ada's mathematical aptitude, but... |