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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Those they met there included the literary couples Samuel
and Anna Hall
, and Alaric
and Zillah Watts
(the latter couple's eldest son eventually married the Howitts' elder daughter, Anna Mary.) Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press. 25-6 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jenkins | Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Home |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | At a party held at the house of author and editor Samuel Carter Hall
in March 1831, GJ
saw William Wordsworth
and Maria Edgeworth
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 15-16 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Determined to be a writer, MJJ
actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard
, dramatist James Robinson Planché
, the Rev. George Robert Gleig
, and Sir Walter Scott |
Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | When she approached the New Monthly Magazine as a prospective contributor, assistant editor S. C. Hall
rejected the topics she proposed, and suggested that she should write on Byron
. She based her work on... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | S. C. Hall
, the journal's editor, extended a special invitation to her to write the piece. Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses. 108 |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall
, Anna Maria Hall
, Dinah Mulock (later Craik)
, and Mary Howitt
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press. 19 |
death | Julia Pardoe | In her later years JP
had endured a great deal of mockery. Samuel Carter Hall
noted in his Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance that she was... |
Leisure and Society | Julia Pardoe | JP
associated with Frances Trollope
, and corresponded with Mrs John Hearne
, Samuel Carter Hall
and Anna Maria Hall
, Francis
and Margaret Bennoch
, and Sir John Philippart
. Szladits, Lola. “A Victorian Literary Correspondence: Letters from Julia Pardoe to Sir John Philippart, 1841-1860”. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 55 , pp. 367-78. 368 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166: 297-8 |
Publishing | Jane Porter | In her later years JP
wrote for military and popular journals, McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 18251846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 20 , No. 2, pp. 45-62. 47 |
Cultural formation | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Despite her Irish birth, she disliked and distanced herself from the Irish: Anna Maria Hall
's husband, Samuel Carter Hall
, reported her saying that she needed to fumigate her dining-room after entertaining Daniel O'Connell |
Friends, Associates | Lydia Howard Sigourney | On this trip LHS
added a number of literary names to her roster of acquaintances: Maria Edgeworth
, William Wordsworth
, Samuel Rogers
, Anna Maria Hall
and her husband
, and Jane
and Thomas Carlyle |
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