Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Cornford | Frances Darwin (later Cornford
) travelled to Belfast to serve as hostess for her father
, who was then president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
, founded in 1831. Cornford, Hugh et al. “Frances Cornford 1886-1960”. Selected Poems, edited by Jane Dowson and Jane Dowson, Enitharmon Press, 1996, p. xxvii - xxxvii. xxx Delany, Paul. The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke and the Ordeal of Youth. Free Press, 1987. 51 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Stopes | He came originally from a Quaker family but chose not to interfere with his wife's religious beliefs. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 185 |
Leisure and Society | Florence Nightingale | At the age of fourteen, FN
became involved in the activities of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
(although actual membership was not yet open to women). Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. 24 |
Occupation | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
gave her first public lecture, at the British Association
in Leeds, on the topic of what would become her first book: her journey through the Carpathian Mountains. “19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers. Birmingham Daily Post 10051 (10 September 1890): 5 Dowie, Ménie Muriel. Gallia. Editor Small, Helen, J. M. Dent, 1995. xxvii |
Occupation | Emily Shirreff | Restored for the moment to health, ES
, with her sister Maria Grey
, attended a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
at Nottingham in 1866. There they acted as hostesses... |
Occupation | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Morgan set up her first salon during her time in Paris. After returning to her home in Kildare Street and renovating it after its mistreatment by tenants, she made it the site of... |
Other Life Event | Harriet Martineau | She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria
on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 2: 125 |
Publishing | Lydia Becker | LB
's epistolary reportage of the British Association
's meeting at Montreal in Canada appeared in the Manchester Examiner and Times. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | Lydia Becker | LB
's paper on a parasitic plant fungus was presented at the meeting of the British Association
in Exeter. Shteir, Ann B. Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 230 |
Textual Production | Lydia Becker | LB
contributed a paper on Some Supposed Differences in the Minds of Men and Women with Regard to Educational Necessities to a British Association
meeting at Norwich. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Production | Isabella Bird | Later that summer, in August, she addressed the British Association
, a national scientific society, about her recent travels. She also spoke to church groups in order to raise money for medical missions. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994. 179-80 |
Textual Production | Charlotte Stopes | This book began in 1885 as a paper for the British Association
. However, at the meeting CS
was not permitted to read either part of her two-part paper since the Committee felt that though... |
Travel | Lydia Becker | She attended the annual British Association
meeting in Canada and took the opportunity to visit relatives. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Facsimile Edition, Source Book Press, 1970. 167 |
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