Giuseppe Garibaldi

She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne (whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton , and Charles Kingsley (all of...

FAK says that she did translation for the Italian patriot Garibaldi : several articles and part of his The Rule of the Monk; or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century, which was published in English in 1870.

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 .

Garibaldi at Varignano, HHK 's first publicly printed poem, appeared in the Observer; the poem later became Aspromonte.

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...

The first part of the collection concerns Giuseppe Garibaldi , Felice Orsini (whose assassination attempt on Napoleon III it defends), and the cause the author herself had fervently embraced: that of Italian nationalism.

There is considerable tension in EJ 's social vision, in part because she lacked literary models in which a feminist and proletarian stance might be articulated. Thus while some poems represent the factory as a...

Her son says that in the preface to this book CH talks about Garibaldi 's rough reception from the Irish in Birkenhead, which she had witnessed. (Though generally popular in England, Garibaldi was disliked...

Many of the poems are temperance pieces; others treat religious topics. Spirit-Rapping employs satiric humour to attack what seems to JH self-evidently impious—nonsensical—absurd. Her attacks on injustice are direct and unstinting, whether denouncing the...

In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli on behalf of JH resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification...

In contrast to her refusal to commit herself publicly on domestic politics, EG supported the struggle for Italian independence. Her name appeared on a petition spearheaded by Florence Nightingale in support of Garibaldi 's troops...

In her later columns, written while she was in Italy, MF positioned herself as a staunch proponent of Italian nationalism, and called on her American readers to give their support. She continued to write...

John Cordy Jeaffreson gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence...

After many adventures, including involvement with a beautiful French girl but not including finding the object of his quest, Spiridion returns to Sicily in time to join Garibaldi 's army of liberation. The father, discovered...

Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent...