Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett.
prelims
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Textual Features | Geraldine Jewsbury | In To-day, the first of these articles, she describes what she sees as a pervasive feeling of discontent in English society and argues that there is no room in the old faiths for the... |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
. There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both... |
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. prelims |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic
priest, but found it unsatisfying. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 24 |
Textual Features | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey. 274 |
Leisure and Society | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
attended (with Robert Browning
) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle
on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin
and the philosophies of Carlyle
on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc
, and her... |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Educated at Sandhurst
, RHH
started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle
and Edgar Allan Poe
. He also adapted plays... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
, in a study entitled Thomas Carlyle, set out to urge on a sceptical modern age the spirituality, originality, and energy, in a word the greatness, of her subject. Murray, David Leslie. “Carlyle’s Gospel”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1302, p. 25. 25 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell |
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