Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 100
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Dedications | Mary Catherine Hume | The work opens with a sonnet dedicating the collection to her father
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 100 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
's father, Joseph Hume
, died. In accordance with her Swedenborgian beliefs, she refused to mourn, protesting the selfishness of lamenting one whose soul had gone to a better place. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Joseph Hume Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 103 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Catherine Hume | Mary Catherine's Scottish father, Joseph Hume
, was a Radical Member of Parliament, who sat indefatigably on committees and held other positions such as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University
. In parliament he reportedly spoke... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | AW
's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume
, was a translator of Dante
, and a friend of Charles Lamb
, William Hazlitt
, and William Godwin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. under Joseph Hume |
Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | Bentham took an interest in Wright as a political dissenter who exalted the American political system and was scorned by English Tories. He praised her activities and was curious about the personal history that had... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Catherine Hume | The other poems in the collection touch on the Crystal Palace (recently moved to its permanent home in Sydenham just south of London), Emanuel Swedenborg
, and MCH
's father, Joseph Hume
. Hume, Mary Catherine. Normiton. J. W. Parker and Son, 1857. prelims |