Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
also knew Charles Dickens
, Thomas Carlyle
, and the Brownings
—she admired Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(whom she had met for half an hour) as so interesting a woman. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 299 Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray. 89-100 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 1: 225, 257 |
Textual Production | Anne Ridler | She followed Shakespeare Criticism 1919-1935 with Shakespeare Criticism 1935-1960 in 1963. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 80: 358 |
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... |
Residence | Adelaide Procter | AP
lived with her family at various addresses around London. Initially they lived with her mother's mother, Anne Benson Skepper
, and mother's stepfather, Basil Montagu
, in a lively establishment described by Thomas Carlyle |
Literary responses | Jane Porter | JP
's use of historical figures and her descriptions of the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794 made many readers suppose that the first volume especially was history, not fiction. A friend of the family felt sure... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | C. E. Plumptre | CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she... |
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. 57 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle
, Goethe
, Emerson
, and Shakespeare
. Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and... |
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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Oliphant | The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude
's life of Thomas Carlyle
. Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press. 256 |
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