Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
Connections
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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. |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Coventry Patmore | CP
's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson
, Robert Browning
, Thomas Carlyle
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, and John Ruskin
. Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins
and Edmund Gosse
. Among... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | The couple were also good friends with Thomas
and Jane Carlyle
. SA
helped the Carlyles with their house-hunting in London, Tarr, Rodger L. “’Let us burn our ships’: Carlyle, Sarah Austin, and House-Hunting in London”. Studies in Scottish Literature, edited by G. Ross Roy, University of South Carolina Press, pp. 91-94. 91 |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In 1838, HM
met the British diplomat David Urquhart
, who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Family and Intimate relationships | Una Troubridge | Sir Henry Taylor
, UT
's paternal grandfather, was a poet and playwright whose verses were admired by Wordsworth
and whose plays (Victorian melodrama) were performed by the famous actor William Charles Macready
. Taylor's... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Kavanagh | Later in his eventful life he entered into a common-law marriage with a woman named Marie Rose, with whom he had three children. He knew Thomas Carlyle
and he apparently rented rooms to Karl Marx |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Thomas Carlyle
was installed as Rector of Edinburgh University
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 266 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Thomas Carlyle |
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