Giuseppe Mazzini

GJ translated the writings of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini , including his reviews of Carlyle ; her versions appeared in 1844 in the British and Foreign Review.

While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle (to some extent), Erasmus Darwin , and Mazzini found it promising. The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...

GJ was also a friend, even before she settled in London, of Eliza Ashurst (a translator of George Sand ), whose father was a Radical, the originator of the Penny Post, and a friend...

HHK met Giuseppe Garibaldi on his visit to England; on a different occasion this year she met another Italian nationalist whom she had passionately admired for years, Giuseppe Mazzini .

HHK published The Disciples (written at the request of Mazzini , who had died the previous year), a five-part historical and political poem about the struggle for a unified Italian Republic.

HHK 's Letters and Recollections of Mazzini appeared, edited by the eminent historian G. M. Trevelyan , who was among other things an authority on Garibaldi.

HHK 's final publication, her controversial essay The Religion of Mazzini, appeared in the Dublin Review.

HHK , a deeply religious woman, published primarily during the second half of the nineteenth century and focused many of her writings on her lifelong passions: the struggle for Italian nationalism and the revolutionary figures...

Her reading of Farini initiated her enthusiasm for Italian nationalism and her passionate devotion to Mazzini . She wrote that all the history and all the poetry I read imbued and confirmed me in ideas...

Harriet corresponded with Mazzini , Italian patriot and writer, from 1862, and they remained close until his death. The heroine in William Hale White 's novel Clara Hopgood (1896), who dies devoted to the fight...

On 16 August 1862 (the year after Italy achieved its independence, as a monarchy and not as the republic which the revolutionaries had envisaged), Harriet renewed her pledges of devotion to Mazzini and his political...

HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...

In the poem's second stanza, HHK laments the timing of her work and also acknowledges Mazzini 's profound influence: O Book of mine, which he commanded! long
Waited and worked for, and achieved too late...

The work is written largely in blank verse, with rhyme used for emphasis in particular sections. Emily Hickey suggests that HHK left it open to question whether The Disciples, as a whole, is a...

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...