Oliver Wendell Holmes

Standard Name: Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Travel Iza Duffus Hardy
After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...
Travel Mary Anne Duffus Hardy
During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
Textual Production Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS spent some years writing journalism and children's stories after the publication of Agnes of Sorrento. Then, after settling in a winter home in Florida, she resumed a romance she had begun some...
Publishing Emily Jane Pfeiffer
According to scholars, the first edition of this collection is extremely rare. The second and much expanded edition, published in 1888, tells us that the first edition perished, together with several other of her works...
Literary responses Frances Hodgson Burnett
FHB 's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus.
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Fauntleroy was, says...
Literary responses Anna Swanwick
Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller (a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where...
Literary responses Florence Marryat
This novel has aroused recent critical discussion. Robert T. Eldridge discussed it in The New York Review of Science Fiction in February 1998 under the title The Other Vampire Novel of 1897, and Brenda Mann Hammack
Literary responses Emily Jane Pfeiffer
The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would...
Literary responses Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Holmes claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration.
Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, pp. 5-13.
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In their introduction to the 1998 edition, scholars Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood
Intertextuality and Influence Rebecca Harding Davis
When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press.
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American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy.
Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago.
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Davis's publisher...
Friends, Associates Harriet Beecher Stowe
Two hundred people celebrated HBS 's seventy-first birthday, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Oliver Wendell Holmes , and William Dean Howells .
Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates Harriet Beecher Stowe
HBS developed a friendship with Oliver Wendell Holmes . She also gained notoriety by supporting a young writer named Anna Dickinson who caused a sensation by writing a novel which defended interracial marriage. This led...
Friends, Associates Amelia B. Edwards
One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Oliver Wendell Holmes joined forces to get her invited...
Friends, Associates Emily Faithfull
EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman .
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

Timeline

13 February 1843: Oliver Wendell Holmes first suggested, in...

Building item

13 February 1843

Oliver Wendell Holmes first suggested, in a paper delivered to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement , that childbed (puerperal) fever was carried on doctors' hands.

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