Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 22, pp. 16-18. 16
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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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Her first epigraph, from Thomas Carlyle
's essay Biography, counters the view of novelists and their work as foolish. |
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... |
Textual Production | Margaret Fuller | Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 22, pp. 16-18. 16 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
Occupation | Ralph Waldo Emerson | RWE
studied theology at Harvard
but eventually left the priesthood when he came to doubt the sacraments. He travelled to Europe and met Carlyle
, Coleridge
, and Wordsworth
. Upon his return to America... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | On her first return from abroad to set up house with Lewes, GE
had to undertake damage control in managing her friendships. She was anxious about the probable reaction of old friends like the Brays... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble. 131 |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Friends of LDG
's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham
, theCarlyles
, James Mill
, Macaulay
, and Sydney Smith
. Her own childhood friends included her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In Through the Magic DoorSACD
wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart
, Boswell
, Walter Scott
, Thomas Babington Macaulay
, Carlyle
, Melville |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. A. Dillwyn | This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle
(to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his... |
Friends, Associates | Charles Dickens | As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD
had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley
, William Harrison Ainsworth
, and John Forster
(who later became... |
Textual Features | Hannah Cullwick | According to Liz Stanley
, the extent of minutiae, repetition, and corresponding lack of emotional or psychological recording or retrospective analysis in the diaries' accounts of HC
's daily work is a result of their... |
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 |
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