Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Her father's closest friends were from the literary elite: the ProctersAnne Procter
and the CarlylesJane Welsh Carlyle
. ATR
was friends with Dickens
's daughters, particularly Kate Dickens
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 30-1, 45 |
Friends, Associates | John Ruskin | JR
's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Violet Hunt
, Jean Ingelow
, Flora Shaw
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Thomas Carlyle |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare
and Thomas Hood
. Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley
; ML
corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
called on Thomas
and Jane (Welsh) Carlyle
in London. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 36-7 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt
and Thomas Carlyle
, and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau
. In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand
and the Polish poet... |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Howard Sigourney | On this trip LHS
added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, Samuel Rogers
, Anna Maria Hall
and her husband
, and Jane
and Thomas Carlyle |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
Friends, Associates | Herbert Spencer | He counted Thomas Carlyle
and John Stuart Mill
among his friends. George Eliot
would have liked to make their intellectual friendship an intimate one, but he broke it off. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Sara Coleridge | SC
met Thomas Carlyle
at a party at St Mark's College
in Chelsea (the earliest teacher training college). Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 124 |
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