CN
argues here that absolute knowledge is impossible because of the unavoidable element of subjectivity.
Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
73
Although this sounds as if anything beyond our senses must be essentially unknowable, so that even its existence becomes...
Textual Features
George Eliot
While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The...
Textual Features
Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
She calls on popular women writers to assert their claim to national recognition
qtd. in
Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray, 1999.
210
for fear that male voices (such as Huxley
, Darwin
, and Tyndall
) will dominate, leaving nothing for discussion except...
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Constance Naden
CN
had meanwhile, three years before Gladstone's essay, given up writing poetry, which she came to see as essentially lightweight. Her friends tended to blame for this the influence of Robert Lewins
, who later...
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Dorothy Wellesley
DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie...
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Constance Naden
Hughes regarded the most important essay here as the first, Summary of Results, which selectively sketches the history of philosophy insofar as it bears on CN
's own interests. He also judged the second,...
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1881: The Normal School of Science was created...
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1881
The Normal School of Science
was created from science departments at South Kensington, earlier attached to the School of Mines.
Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer. A Chronology of the History of Science, 1450-1900. Garland, 1987.
400, 408
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
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28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
Parker, Derek. “Onward to 3000”. The Author, Vol.
cx
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 166-8.
166-7
1889: T. H. Huxley published an work Agnostici...
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1889
T. H. Huxley
published an work Agnosticism.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley. Editor Barr, Alan P., University of Georgia Press, 1997.