Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Alethea Lewis | AL
's father, the Rev. James Brereton
, vicar of Acton, grandson of a baron, married again and had four more daughters and another son. He had literary and scientific interests; but Joseph Priestley
(an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
owned and took great care of a portrait of her great-grandfather Joseph Priestley
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus. 178 |
Wealth and Poverty | Marie Belloc Lowndes | By August 1944 MBL
had tenants in her London house, to protect it against burglary and bring in some rent. Since she employed no servant there, they got their own breakfast and ate their other... |
Literary responses | Marie Belloc Lowndes | |
Cultural formation | Catharine Macaulay | |
Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | Though CM
's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray
and Horace Walpole
thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we... |
politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
's biographer R. K. Webb
argues that her intellectual and political positions flowed quite logically from her family's business and religious interests: from a kind of radicalism typical of the industrial north. This gave... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Just at the point when she become a published author, HM
's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 108 |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | After this came Cinnamon and Pearls, which treats imperialist exploitation in Ceylon, Logan, Deborah Anna, and Harriet Martineau. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Illustrations of Political Economy, Broadview, p. various pages. 384 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Moody | Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM
addresses Joseph Priestley
on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette
on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet
on... |
politics | Amelia Opie | She took the trials so seriously that she thought of emigrating with her father (as Joseph Priestley
had already done) if they went against the defendants. Wordsworth, Jonathan. The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age. Woodstock Books. 149 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's great-grandfather, her mother's grandfather, was the famous Radical and Unitarian scientist Joseph Priestley
, sometimes referred to as the father of modern chemistry. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 36 Markel, Michael H. Hilaire Belloc. Twayne. 1 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | She formed a bond, too, with Madame Belloc's old friend Adelaide de Montgolfier
, daughter of the balloon inventor Etienne de Montgolfier
, who told her that her father's invention had been inspired by Joseph Priestley |
Publishing | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
's contributions to other periodicals include her article Everybody's Baby which appeared in Saint Pauls magazine in 1871. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. III: 377 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Radcliffe | While staying with her uncle Thomas Bentley at Chelsea, Ann Ward (later AR
) met a number of influential men, most of them with Dissenting connections: Joseph Banks
, George Fordyce
, Ralph Griffiths
,... |
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