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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
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Reception | Rhoda Broughton | As a result of the novel's satire of Oxford society, and in particular its alleged caricature of Pattison, RB
was never again admitted to dinner parties given by Benjamin Jowett
, Master of Balliol College |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | Benjamin Jowett
wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker
. Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman
. The book was reviewed widely—at times... |
Instructor | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
attended Highgate School as a boarder, winning a poetry prize, but was in constant trouble over various acts of rebellion against authority. The headmaster several times threatened to expel him. He gained, however, two... |
Textual Production | Jan Morris | More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | In 1860 FN
began her correspondence with Benjamin Jowett
, who was introduced to her by Arthur Hugh Clough
. They finally met in 1862, and remained dear friends, confidants, and companions in social reform... |
Textual Production | Florence Nightingale | John Stuart Mill
and Benjamin Jowett
both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago. 395 |
Textual Features | Florence Nightingale | The letters span FN
's entire life and include examples of her correspondences with Edwin Chadwick
, Benjamin Jowett
, Harriet Martineau
, and Mary Clarke Mohl
. Nightingale, Florence. Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Editors Vicinus, Martha and Bea Nergaard, Harvard University Press. 443-5 |
Instructor | Walter Pater | WP
entered King's School, Canterbury
, as a day student. Starting in 1858, he studied at Queen's College, Oxford
, where he was tutored in Greek by Benjamin Jowett
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 57 |
Occupation | Walter Pater | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In a letter dated 15 January of that year, she described meeting Benjamin Jowett
, whom she called very agreeable indeed, and very amiable. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press. 2: 179 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 2: 179 |
Publishing | May Sinclair | She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato
and Benjamin Jowett
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press. 26n38 |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Skene | From her youth FS
was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott
, a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 66 |
Instructor | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After private tutoring, he then entered Balliol College, Oxford
, under its legendry Master Benjamin Jowett
, in January 1856. He flourished intellectually at Balliol, though largely outside the academic framework. He left Oxford in... |
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