Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press.
169, 171
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Leisure and Society | Isa Blagden | IB
was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | During her time in Italy she came into contact with a number of other women who revered her as a successful female artist. She met actress Charlotte Cushman
and writer Matilda Hays
; she understood... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye
, and feminist... |
Dedications | Frances Power Cobbe | The book was dedicated to Mary Somerville, Mary Carpenter
, and Harriet Hosmer
, as respectively, The Authoress of The Connection of the Physical Sciences, The Foundress of the First Female Reformatory, and The... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's connections from home gave her introductions into the circles of US and British women living in Italy, including Harriet Hosmer
(who became a close friend). She met Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |
Travel | Matilda Hays | MH
, along with her partner Charlotte Cushman
, sculptor Harriet Hosmer
, journalist Grace Greenwood
and several other women, travelled to Rome to live like jolly female bachelors. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 169, 171 |
Textual Production | Matilda Hays | With Bessie Rayner Parkes
, MH
co-edited the English Woman's Journal, for which she also wrote on such subjects as Harriet Hosmer
and Florence Nightingale
. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 116, 120 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. |
Author summary | Matilda Hays | Matilda Hays
was a novelist, translator of George Sand
, editor, and contributor to periodicals. Her work spanned many genres and a variety of topics related to women's work and opportunities. One of her two... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | In 1853, MH
's relationship with Cushman
began to deteriorate. Several sources speculate that Hays's attraction to sculptor Harriet Hosmer
sparked some of the difficulties. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 175 |
Violence | Matilda Hays | According to Harriet Hosmer
, who was also staying with them at the time, she awoke from a nap to see Miss H. attacking Miss C. with her fists and Miss C. defending herself. Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman. University of Michigan Press. 183 |
Literary Setting | Matilda Hays | The setting and dates of the novel draw substantially on the relationship between Hays and Cushman
. As Lisa Merrill
notes, the very streets on which they lived in Rome . . . are described... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
Travel | Fanny Kemble | It was eleven years before she left the USA after signing a separation agreement. She frequently visited Catharine Sedgwick
and her family in Lenox, Massachusetts, during these years; she helped out in various ways... |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Kemble | During an earlier visit to Italy in the summer of 1853, FK
's social circle had included Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, and her former acquaintance Harriet Hosmer
. She met the young Anne Thackeray
in Rome. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster. 156 Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 227 |
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