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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | JW
was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry... |
| Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
| Cultural formation | James Anthony Froude | He gradually lost faith in High Church
tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle
. JAF
was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and... |
| Cultural formation | Grace Aguilar | Her father's family was from Spain and her mother's family was from Portugal. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996. 136, 176 Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, pp. 137 - 48. 138 |
| Dedications | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman
may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
... |
| Dedications | Geraldine Jewsbury | It was respectfully Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett, 1855. prelims |
| Education | Virginia Woolf | Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë
, Lady Barlow
(a commentator on Charles Darwin
), Dinah Mulock Craik
, George Eliot
,... |
| Education | Flora Shaw | On her father's promotion in 1861, a move to the Commandant's house enabled the voracious young reader to take advantage of unlimited access to the library of the Royal Military Academy
, where she was... |
| Education | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
's parents encouraged her intellectual development from an early age. Among the important first texts she read were Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress and John BunyanHoly War, and Carlyle
's French Revolution. Her mother... |
| Education | Clara Codd | CC
never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited, 1951. 6 |
| Education | Louisa May Alcott | She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne
's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft
and also warmed... |
| Education | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | After Greystone House, Emmeline Pethick started attending a Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, where her family had moved. She became a boarder at this school when she was twelve. Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke, 1885. 73 |
| Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton
and Carlyle
. She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary... |
| Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Timeline
1826
The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett
to number around 30,000.
December 1831
Thomas Carlyle
's Characteristics was published in the Edinburgh Review.
1833-34
Thomas Carlyle
's Sartor Resartus (meaning The Tailor Re-tailored) was published serially and anonymously in Fraser's Magazine.
31 March 1836
The Westminster Review merged with a new quarterly to produce The London and Westminster Review, which embraced the philosophies of political and cultural radicals.
May 1837
Thomas Noon Talfourd
, MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.
By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
By 20 May 1837
Thomas Carlyle
published his acclaimed History of the French Revolution.
December 1839
Thomas Carlyle
published his essayChartism, bearing the date of 1840.
1840s
Advertisers packed London streets with large models of various products; fantastic items such as seven-foot-tall top hats and sides of bacon were frequently seen as they were pulled through the roadways mounted on carts.
April 1841
Thomas Carlyle
published On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History.
3 May 1841
The London Library
, established by Thomas Carlyle
with Harriet Martineau
, Dickens
, Thackeray
, and others, first opened its doors.
March 1843
The Society of British Authors
was formed.
By 13 May 1843
Thomas Carlyle
published Past and Present.
December 1849
Thomas Carlyle
published his racist Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question in Fraser's.
1850
Charles Kingsley
anonymously published Alton Locke, A Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography.