Matthew Arnold

The Times obituary (which was accompanied by an editorial) commented that Broughton herself was more entertaining than her novels, filling her social role far more brilliantly than any of her Joans or Nancies or Belindas...

Numerous friends and acquaintances of CB wrote tributes or obituaries which initiated the legend of the Brontës and Charlotte in particular: Harriet Martineau in the Daily News on April 6; Matthew Arnold in a short...

Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron in...

LBL 's first book was a novel, The Buried Stream, titled from a line by Matthew Arnold .

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...

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...

EA's uncle Matthew Arnold , a leading writer of the Victorian period, was the author of such texts as Culture and Anarchy. Her sister Mary Augusta, known as Mrs Humphry Ward , was one...

Both in her own time and the twenty-first century, EA is largely known as an Arnold, the granddaughter of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby , niece of Matthew Arnold , and sister of Mrs Humphry Ward

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...