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Connections
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Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
's last novel, Wives and Daughters, appeared serially and anonymously in Cornhill Magazine; it was truncated near its conclusion by her death. Her anonymity was by choice, not convention. Her unsigned novel... |
Textual Production | Mary Butts | It includes In Bloomsbury, The House Party, Widdershins, Brightness Falls (titled from the famous lyric by Thomas Nashe
), and Friendship's Garland (whose title is better known as that of a volume... |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | AM
wrote introductions or prefaces to over twenty books. For Blackie
's Red Letter Library series alone she introduced Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's letters and poems (1896 and 1903), and works by Robert Browning
(1903),... |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later... |
Textual Production | Emily Davies | Under ED
's editorship, the periodical combined literary contributions (such as poetry by Christina Rossetti
and fiction by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
) with book reviews, reports of bodies such as the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women |
Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | Here AP
's wide literary connections paid off handsomely. Contributors to The Victoria Regia included some of the most prominent names in literature of the day, mingled with less prominent writers who were also feminists:... |
Textual Production | Patricia Wentworth | PW
published The Fire Within, another novel (or romance), whose title is a quotation from Matthew Arnold
. |
Textual Production | Lilian Bowes Lyon | LBL
's first book was a novel, The Buried Stream, titled from a line by Matthew Arnold
. Another novel, The Spreading Tree, 1931, published as by D.J. Cotman, has been ascribed to her. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | Perhaps the most interesting is her review (March 1884) of Harry Buxton Forman
's recent edition of Keats
. Ward argues that the letters to Fanny Brawne
ought not to have been made public. (She... |
Residence | Rhoda Broughton | The move, undertaken so that RB
might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold
that they would receive a warm welcome, Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins. 50 |
Residence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
and her husband, Frederick Broome
, called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached... |
Reception | Dinah Mulock Craik | Following her death, a committee which included Tennyson
, Arnold
, Robert Browning
, Margaret Oliphant
, T. H. Huxley
, and James Russell Lowell
was formed to devise a memorial to DMC
in Tewkesbury... |
Occupation | Walter Pater | While at Brasenose
, he wrote three anonymous essays for the Westminster Review: Coleridge
's Writings, Winckelmann, and The Poetry of William Morris. All three were attacked, says scholar Laurel Brake |
Occupation | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist... |
Timeline
December 1848: Arthur Hugh Clough published The Bothie of...
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December 1848
Arthur Hugh Clough
published The Bothie of Tober-na-Fuosich, later reprinted as The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich.
February 1849: Matthew Arnold published his first volume...
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February 1849
Matthew Arnold
published his first volume of poetry, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, anonymously under the initial A.
October 1852: Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna,...
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October 1852
Matthew Arnold
published Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.
21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...
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21 March 1853
The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold
addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough
a classically misogynist letterabout women writers, their works and their looks.
November 1853: Matthew Arnold published Poems: A New Ed...
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November 1853
Matthew Arnold
published Poems: A New Edition.
By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...
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By 2 January 1858
Matthew Arnold
's Merope: a Tragedy was published.
By 6 May 1865: Matthew Arnold published Essays in Criticism,...
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By 6 May 1865
Matthew Arnold
published Essays in Criticism, First Series; the second series followed in 1888.
By 31 August 1867: Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach (probably written...
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By 31 August 1867
Matthew Arnold
's Dover Beach (probably written in 1851) was published in New Poems.
By 20 February 1869: Matthew Arnold published his sweeping work...
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By 20 February 1869
Matthew Arnold
published his sweeping work of cultural criticism, Culture and Anarchy.
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...
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1880
Thomas Humphry Ward
published with Macmillan
a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.
1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...
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1 October 1880
Mason College
or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason
, who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors to students.
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
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28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
November 1888: Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, Second...
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November 1888
Matthew Arnold
's Essays in Criticism, Second Series were published six months after his death.
Texts
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
Arnold, Matthew. Lectures and Essays in Criticism. Editors Super, R. H. and Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor, University of Michigan Press, 1962.