Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray.
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Education | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | They sometimes attended the local Westminster Infant School in Vincent Square, London, alongside ragged children. Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray. 5-7 Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 13 The progressive school was a non-charity educational enterprise along Owenite lines initially funded by a committee... |
politics | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) sided with Robert Owen
, John Bright
, and their mutual friend Charles Bray
, chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League
, in opposing the Corn Laws. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 72 |
Textual Features | Margaret Harkness | George, the protagonist, is born into the upper class but tries to become one of the people, working amongst the poor as a socialist. The novel is set in East End London against the London... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt
(who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams
, reader for Smith and Elder
; Robert Owen
, socialist; Frank Stone
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | James Martineau
published a scathing attack on the book in the Prospective Review under the title Mesmeric Atheism. He poured scorn on the authors for believing that one can legitimately reach the doctrines of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
Textual Features | Marion Reid | A Plea combines utilitarian, natural rights, and Owen
ite socialist arguments. McFadden, Margaret. Golden Cables of Sympathy. University of Kentucky Press. 110 |
Friends, Associates | Flora Tristan | In Paris, FT
began to associate with socialists, including Charles Fourier
and Robert Owen
, and feminists, including Eugénie Niboyet
and Anna Wheeler
. Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg. 8 Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge. 223, 227-8 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Flora Tristan | Following Paris publication, the volume appeared in London later that year. By 1842, it had reached a third edition in London and a fourth in Paris. The latter was a popular edition dedicated to French... |
Travel | Frances Trollope | Whether or not Frances Wright
's utopian colony was FT
's chosen final destination, the decision to leave it came swiftly after her arrival. She and her travelling companions were disappointed by the conditions at... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Beatrice Webb | Like many of her books this first one uses a historical perspective to explain the nature of present-day institutions, going back to the ideas of Robert Owen
and their working out in practice. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | AW
failed in her attempt to arrange a meeting between Charles Fourier
(whom she had met in Paris this year) and Robert Owen
. Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 350 |
politics | Anna Wheeler | Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend, Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 350 |