Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58.
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Birth | Charlotte Elliott | Charlotte Elliott
was born at Grove House, Clapham, in South London, the third daughter among eight children born to a leading family of the Clapham Sect
. Babington, Eleanor et al. “Biographical Sketch”. Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, Religious Tract Society, 1873, pp. 13-58. 13 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | EC
knew many leaders of Victorian religious thought, including Archibald Tait
(Archbishop of Canterbury), writer and cleric Charles Kingsley
, and Edward Pusey
, the central figure of the Oxford Movement. The legacy of... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Elliott | Her family was English, white; most of her male relations were merchants or clergymen. Various members of her family belonged to the EvangelicalAnglican
group called the Clapham Sect
, a coterie of social reformers and... |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Elliott | GE
's brother Henry Hew Dalrymple
acted as her protector during some phases of her life, until by October 1778 he joined the army, left England, and ceased to be available. He later became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Babington first Baron Macaulay | His father, Zachary Macaulay
, was prominent both in the Clapham Sect
and as an abolitionist. His relationship with his father is treated in Catherine Hall
's double biography, Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial... |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Piecing together its intellectual family tree, scholars and critics have looked both forward and back from Bloomsbury. It has been seen as descending from the late eighteenth-century Clapham Sect
(to which VW
's great-grandfather James Stephen |
Friends, Associates | Hannah More | Many of her later friends were at least a generation younger than she was. She met many members of the Clapham Sect
in the 1790s, of whom Henry Thornton
and his daughter Marianne
became particularly... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Charles | EC
's religious views were influenced by her admiration for the Clapham Sect
; she published many titles with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Charles | The novel tells the story of its female narrator's life during the evangelical revival in the Napoleonic era, [and] proposes religion as the antidote for revolution. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Textual Production | Hannah More | Of a total of 114 tracts, HM
wrote fifty herself. Her sisters Sally
and Patty
contributed (Patty with a single tract), as did the Clapham Sect
, Hester Mulso Chapone
(Mary Wood the Housemaid... |
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