Matthew Arnold

George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm . The marriage apparently proved happy. The...

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...

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

The paper points out the failings of middle-class schools for girls, while quoting with approval Matthew Arnold 's views about the necessity of education for class and national stability. In her conclusion, ED insists that...

Frances Power Cobbe thought this book capital and reported herself delighted by the sense, and the fun! Your quick bits of sarcasm are impayable [sic].Matthew Arnold pronounced it very pleasantly written, as well...

EG 's last novel, Wives and Daughters, appeared serially and anonymously in Cornhill Magazine; it was truncated near its conclusion by her death.

EG called this work simply a little country love story, although it climaxes with a fire and a shipwreck. Charlotte Brontë liked it, and Mary Forster recorded her brother Matthew Arnold 's enjoyment of...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...

In this novel Matthew Arnold is prominent among the authors quoted, and Iseult of Brittany among the texts. The novel opens sombrely with Mrs Duncan, a Welshwoman of about thirty-five, talking religiously with her stepdaughter...

His mother, born Julia Arnold , was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold . She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford ...

Her BA later (according to the Oxford system) brought her an automatic MA. She began working for a graduate degree on Matthew Arnold , but did not finish it.

SOJ had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter and Louise Guiney , and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe (whose funeral she and Annie Fields attended in...

Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...

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