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Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized... |
Education | Pearl S. Buck | Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch
's Lives and Foxe
's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | She herself thought this better than her novels, but Thackeray
satirised it as Heavenly Chords; A Collection of Sacred Strains by Lady Frances Juliana Flummery. Susan Ferrier
agreed with the author that the prayers... |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Thackeray
wrote scathingly about this novel: If this is exclusive love, it should be a lesson to all men never to marry a woman beyond the rank of a milk-maid and vice-versa. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 65 |
Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | The controversial quality of this book made it popular in the USA as well as in England, and several new editions followed. Thackeray
, however, wrote: We never met with a book more pernicious or... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
attended a party given by Thackeray
for Charlotte Brontë
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 211 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | JWC
criticized the party, which was also attended by Elizabeth Gaskell
, William Thackeray
, and Tom Taylor
. Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 204 Surtees, Virginia. Jane Welsh Carlyle. Michael Russell. 205 |
Reception | Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne | As well as the songs already mentioned, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography names The Hundred Pipers and Wha'll be King but Charlie? as among the handful of COLN
's songs that remained common currency... |
Literary responses | Hester Mulso Chapone | |
Publishing | Caroline Clive | After she became established as a novelist, CC
was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first... |
Publishing | Caroline Clive | The first number of the Cornhill, January 1860, carried a poem by CC
which the editor, Thackeray
, called noble and touching, but after he declined another poem submitted that April Clive contributed nothing further. Mitchell, Charlotte. Caroline Clive, 1801-1873, A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, Department of English, The University of Queenland. 25 |
politics | Constance, Countess Markievicz | Having publicly advocated a police boycott in May 1919, CCM
was again arrested and sentenced to four months at Cork Jail
. She kept in close contact with her sister Eva Gore-Booth
, friend and... |
Textual Production | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche Warre Cornish
edited, and contributed biographical reminiscences to, Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray
; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish, published at Boston, Massachusetts. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Blanche Warre Cornish | The writer William Makepeace Thackeray
was BWC
's first cousin once removed (a cousin—and good friend—of her father). She later recalled becoming familiar with him at an early age. Thackeray, William Makepeace. Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray; Together with Recollections by his Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish. Editor Cornish, Blanche Warre, Houghton Mifflin. 3-4 |
Residence | Blanche Warre Cornish | Blanche Ritchie's childhood was peripatetic. She was apparently sent home from India to live with her grandmother in Paris. She was presumably in England when her father had a year's leave there in 1855... |
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