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Cecil John Rhodes
Standard Name: Rhodes, Cecil John
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anita Brookner | Four years after taking her PhD, AB
compiled An Iconography of Cecil Rhodes; Rhodes House at Oxford
has a copy from the typescript. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Bessie Head | Inspired by her early, uncritical admiration for Khama III, Chief of Bechuanaland
, the book moved to the intention of depicting him warts and all (using a title given him by his people, Mother Winter... |
politics | Rudyard Kipling | Always an admirer of the administrators, the soldiers, and their women who made the empire function, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | Despite RD's admiration for Cecil Rhodes
, Alfred Milner
, and Leander Starr Jameson
, he also liked and respected the explorer Mary Kingsley
, whose political views were nothing like this own. Harper, Lila Marz. Solitary Travelers. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 180 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elinor Mordaunt | Evelyn May Clowes was engaged to a man who was killed exploring in Africa (on an expedition funded by Cecil Rhodes
). This bereavement was a matter of great grief to her. The family expectation... |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Compared with its predecessor, said Johns
, this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 134 |
Textual Production | Olive Schreiner | The book was written for a British audience, because Schreiner felt that British public opinion might prevent Cecil Rhodes
from carrying out his plans to foment war to obtain control over the Transvaal. |
Dedications | Olive Schreiner | Schreiner dedicated the work to Sir George Grey
, an English administrator whom she admired for his commitment to Dutch, English, and native Africans alike: the antithesis of Cecil Rhodes
. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch. 231 Schreiner, Olive. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. T. Fisher Unwin. dedication Clayton, Cherry. Olive Schreiner. Twayne. 101 |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | Both publishers' readers and, later, reviewers disapproved of the fictional use of Christ. They also had trouble with the book's highflown style. The book's first, generous print-run sold out rapidly; it became a popular sensation... |
Textual Features | Olive Schreiner | Many South Africans, including members of Schreiner's own family, supported Rhodes
's proposal for a country united under the British flag. OS
, however, had become disillusioned with Rhodes, and her essays expose his ruthless... |
politics | Olive Schreiner | OS
sympathised with the Boers, but initially respected Cecil Rhodes
, who hoped to unite South Africa under the British flag. Later she realised the brutal suppression of the native people which would result from... |
politics | Olive Schreiner | With her husband, OS
became involved in South African politics. Essentially, they were socialists, who opposed the racist, imperialist, and capitalist policies of the South African leaders. After initially becoming a friend of prime minister... |
Publishing | Flora Shaw | In the Fortnightly ReviewFS
published, under her name, The British South Africa Company, an article in praise of Cecil Rhodes
, the founder of the Company. Shaw, Flora. “The British South Africa Company”. Fortnightly Review, Vol. 52 , pp. 662-8. 662-8 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | While in Egypt FS
had the good fortune of meeting C. F. Moberly Bell
, who became influential in advancing her career in journalism. Callaway, Helen, and Dorothy O. Helly. “Crusader for Empire: Flora Shaw / Lady Lugard”. Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Indiana University Press, pp. 79-97. 84 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Shaw | FS
devotes a great deal of space to mining operations and to relations between the Dutch and the English settlers. After briefly describing the underground part of the De Beers Company
diamond mines in Kimberley... |
Timeline
29 October 1889: The British South Africa Company under Cecil...
National or international item
29 October 1889
The British South Africa Company
under Cecil Rhodes
was chartered; the following year Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony.
17 July 1890: Cecil John Rhodes, founder of the British...
National or international item
17 July 1890
Cecil John Rhodes
, founder of the British South Africa Company
, became the prime minister of Cape Colony.
29 December 1895-2 January 1896: The unsuccessful Jameson Raid, led by Leander...
National or international item
29 December 1895-2 January 1896
The unsuccessful Jameson Raid, led by Leander Starr Jameson
and financed by Cecil Rhodes
, tried to annex the Transvaal for British South Africa.
26 March 1902: Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing...
Building item
26 March 1902
Cecil Rhodes
died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford
. They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...
1976: Women became eligible for Rhodes Scholarships...
Building item
1976
Women became eligible for Rhodes Scholarships (established after the death of Cecil Rhodes
on 26 March 1902) for the first time.
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