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Giuseppe Mazzini
Standard Name: Mazzini, Giuseppe
Used Form: Joseph Mazzini
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Family and Intimate relationships | Jessie White Mario | The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the... |
Textual Production | Harriet Hamilton King | 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. |
Publishing | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
's final publication, her controversial essay The Religion of Mazzini, appeared in the Dublin Review. Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 165n |
Author summary | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
politics | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | Harriet corresponded with Mazzini
, Italian patriot and writer, from 1862, and they remained close until his death. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 21 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | 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
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 269 Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 137 Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 24 |
Textual Production | Harriet Hamilton King | 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. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 82 Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 164 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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... |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle
(to some extent), Erasmus Darwin
, and Mazzini
found it promising. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 80 |
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