qtd. in
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages.
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Education | Mary Shelley | MS
and her half-sister Fanny are reputed to have listened as Coleridge read aloud The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Godwin took all the children to Coleridge
's lectures at the Royal Institution |
Education | Eleanor Anne Porden | By the age of nine or ten EAP
was attending science lectures given by Sir Humphry Davy
and others at the Royal Institution
in London. One commentator, Desmond King-Hele
, argues that she gathered... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Atkins | Anna's father, John George Children
, was an amateur scientist during his years as a gentleman of leisure, and made a living from scientific work when that became necessary. He was twice Secretary of the... |
Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | During this time, as well as writing, attending lectures, and arranging her new home, she joined the Royal Institution
and the Aristotelian Society
, where the quality of her contribution to debates was at once... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Mary Somerville | In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution
, and took lessons in... |
Leisure and Society | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
(Lady Eastlake) joined a crowd of over three hundred to hear John Ruskin
lecture at the Royal Institution
. qtd. in Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages. 2: 214 |
Leisure and Society | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
was an active participant in the literary society of London. She recited her own poems to guests at the Royal Institution
, and she ran a literary society called The Attic Chest... |
Publishing | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | John Barlow communicated the contents of each book to the Royal Institution
, the second on 26 May 1843. The first had a second, enlarged edition in 1846, and a third in 1857. The second... |
Reception | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
was awarded the Acton Prize by the Royal Institution
for her works in astronomy. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 832 |
Reception | Anna Swanwick | In 1858 AS
became one of the first female members of the Royal Institution
. The Institution, founded in 1799, calls itself on its website the oldest independent research body in the world, and has... |
Textual Features | Eleanor Anne Porden | The poem concerns a a medieval knight and lady centred on a castle: a tale presented as emerging from a real-life story about a young lady, a Miss Denman, whose veil blew off on a... |
Textual Production | Ruth Pitter | RP
gave an address to the Royal Institution of Great Britain
, entitled (at least in essay form) The Return to Poetic Law. King, Don W. “The Anatomy of a Friendship: the correspondence of Ruth Pitter and C. S. Lewis, 1946-1962: Mythlore, Summer 2003”. Findarticles. 2 and n33 |
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