One of her travelling companions (and a close friend) was the New Woman novelist Mona Caird
(famous for her declaration calling the institution of marriage a vexatious failure in the Westminster Review in 1888).
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Mathilde Blind
MB
worked at this book while staying with Ford Madox Brown
and his second wife
in Manchester.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
It appeared without prefatory matter, but included at the end some pages of Opinions of the Press...
Intertextuality and Influence
Mathilde Blind
The article brought her some prominence. Swinburne
found the new readings most precious.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Swinburne Letters. Editor Lang, Cecil Y., Yale University Press.
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Her close friendship with Ford Madox Brown
and his family grew out of the piece, and her descriptions of scenery...