Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. MacMillan and Co.
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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 | Frances Power Cobbe | Seeking a purpose in life, she had met her lifelong friend Clementia or Mentia Taylor
and other social activists in London. The arrangement with Carpenter
was facilitated by her supporter Lady Byron
, who... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Blamire | Scholars have debated whether The Nun's Return to the World may have been seen by Byron
, and have influenced his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, published in June 1816. Since the eldest child... |
Literary responses | Jane Austen | But of readers whose responses survive, most were delighted. These included Sarah Harriet Burney
—who, however, thought (apparently along with plenty of others) that Catherine Ann Dorset
, sister of Charlotte Smith
, might be... |
Occupation | Frances Power Cobbe | She taught at the Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School
for girl-criminals, founded by Carpenter with the aid of Lady Byron
, and the Ragged Schools and Streetboys' Sunday School operated from a street called St... |
Occupation | Mary Carpenter | She felt that boys and girls learned better separately, and that she might have more of an influence on the girls if she established a separate school for their own needs. Carpenter, J. Estlin. The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter. MacMillan and Co. 164 |
politics | Marion Reid | In June 1840, MR
attended the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London, together with Anna Brownell Jameson
, Amelia Opie
, and Lady Byron
. She was the only Scotswoman present. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. xii Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women : From the Earliest Times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press. |
politics | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
went to the LondonWorld Anti-Slavery Convention in the company of Lady Byron
, Amelia Opie
, and Marion Reid
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. xii |
Author summary | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
is best known for the highly sentimental and influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, although she also authored several other novels, short stories, children's stories, pamphlets, a good deal of journalism, and a... |
Publishing | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | It is a point of debate among scholars whether Blessington saw and used the memoirs of himself which Byron
wrote but later burned. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 7 |
Reception | Margaret Holford | Mary Russell Mitford
called this novel an attempt to portray the poet Byron
, recognisable through several anecdotes familiarly told about him, in very black and exaggerated colors. She maintained that Joanna Baillie
, as... |
Reception | Harriet Martineau | She had made up her mind to accept a mooted pension in 1832, but it never materialised and she came to feel that her independence of mind was too precious to accept such an obligation.... |
Textual Features | Lady Caroline Lamb | The printed selection begins with girlhood letters to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
's elder daughter. It goes on to include correspondence with friends and publishers, analyses of feelings and comments on the experience of pregnancy... |
Textual Production | Edna O'Brien | In Byron
in Love, EOB
presented a vivid gallery of the poet's lovers, but more especially his relationships with his wife, Isabella Milbanke
, and his half-sister, Augusta Leigh
. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | This article overlaps with the essay on juvenile crime which she had written and submitted that year to an annual competition originated by Lady Byron
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Selections from the Letters of Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Editor Power, M. C., Trübner and Co. 326 |
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