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Travel | Tillie Olsen | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola
theory of hereditary destiny. Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 308 |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | |
Textual Production | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Before publishing novels of her own, ELV
started in the literary field as a translator, largely of texts by writers she was connected to through her revolutionary involvement. Ethel L. Voynich papers, 1928-1948. http://www.findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.music.eadmus.mu010020&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=bioghist. |
Textual Production | Fay Weldon | Before her next novel (though she places the memory in the 1980s) FW
planned a historical novel. She was going to set it a year or two before the First World War, in a period... |
Textual Production | Henrik Ibsen | Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx
) played Nora and Aveling played Torvald. They were joined by May Morris
(daughter of William Morris
) as Mrs Linde and Bernard Shaw
as Krogstad. Durbach, Errol. “A century of Ibsen criticism”. The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane and James McFarlane, Cambridge University Press, pp. 233-51. 233-4 |
Textual Production | Luce Irigaray | Along with her earlier Amante marine (addressed to Friedrich Nietzsche
), a book on Martin Heidegger
which appeared in 1983, and a projected fourth book (which was to have linked Marx
with the element of... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | HM
remained throughout her life a staunch defender of free trade principles and government non-interference generally. She argued in one of her letters to the US National Antislavery Standard in 1861, for instance, that Protection... |
Textual Features | Anna Letitia Barbauld | Her economic analysis in this essay identifies power as creating an unnatural separation between the enjoyment of a thing and the power of producing it. McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 385 |
Textual Features | Mildred Cable | This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 195 Cable, Mildred, and Francesca French. The Book which Demands a Verdict. S. C. M. Press. 111 |
Reception | May Kendall | Rowntree's biographer Asa Briggs
credits Kendall's affective writing with bringing Seebohm Rowntree
's The Human Needs of Labourto life; he describes her as someone who always gave loyal and devoted service. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 123 Briggs, Asa. Seebohm Rowntree. Longmans. 84 |
Publishing | Matilda Betham-Edwards | The journal Good Words in 1873 printed two hymns for children by MBE
, beginning respectively God make my life a little light and The little birds now seek their nest. Between them these two... |
politics | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Though MBE
attended, together with a male friend, a meeting of the International Working Men's Association
presided over by Karl Marx
, she did so more as an observer than as a sympathiser. She felt... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | She joined the Karl Marx Club
, a reading group formed by Charlotte Wilson
, at its first meeting in 1884. The club evolved into the Hampstead Historic Club
, which has been described as... |
politics | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She was elected to the Marylebone Labour Party committee in 1936. In a programme of self-education about labour and capitalism, she read Marx
's Das Kapital, Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
's Soviet Communism: A... |