Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | The public animosity between [AB
] and Eleanor Marx
was inevitably put down to sexual rivalry, Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 166 |
politics | Clementina Black | |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | Others who attended the club included Annie Besant
, Olive Schreiner
, Elizabeth Blackwell
, Henrietta Müller
, and Eleanor Marx
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 6 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was also a member of the London-based Writers' Club
, the Women's Institute
—which embraced an educational programme of appalling size, to the frivolous mind—and the Pioneer Club
, which counted IOF
,... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Harkness | Probably through sisters Kate Potter Courtney
(whose house Harkness often stayed at) and Beatrice Potter (later Webb)
, MH
began to associate with the intellectuals who frequented the Reading Room of the British Museum
... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Hickey | Other members of the Browning Society
(besides the joint founder with EH
, Frederick James Furnivall
) included Eleanor Marx
and Frances Buss
. Benzie, William. Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Victorian Scholar Adventurer. Pilgrim Books. 231 |
Performance of text | Henrik Ibsen | HI
's A Doll's House received a private reading at the home of Eleanor Marx
and Edward Aveling
in Bloomsbury, London. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | As in Dublin, she became known for her salons, which were held on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. until their popularity demanded bi-weekly gatherings. The cream of London's literati and intelligentsia attended, including George Bernard Shaw |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | They included Olive Schreiner
, the future Beatrice Webb
, Dollie Maitland Radford
, Margaret Harkness
, Clementina Black
(whose sister Constance
had been a school friend of AL
), and Eleanor Marx
. Through... |
Literary responses | Amy Levy | The Jewish press was outraged by what it saw as the antisemitism of this novel. The Jewish Chronicle did not review it, but implied strong disapprobation in an article entitled Critical Jews. The Jewish... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Karl Marx | His youngest daughter, Eleanor Marx
, was born in January 1855. She became an important British socialist and feminist. |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | Through her political interests she got to know George Bernard Shaw
(with whom she had a brief affair but a succeeding steady friendship), Sidney Webb
, Sydney Olivier
, Annie Besant
, Eleanor Marx
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | In this an advanced woman, Nora, smokes as a protest against existing prejudices. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 68 The heroine's name suggests that either Nesbit or Bland had been quick off the mark in digesting the message of Ibsen |