Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Christina Rossetti | After the appearance of Goblin Market, CR
had less difficulty placing her verse in periodicals. The tide had already started to turn in the 1850s, when her work began to appear in journals including... |
Cultural formation | Adelaide Procter | AP
's lyric love poem to the somewhat scandalous Matilda Hays
, To M.M.H. (published in Legends and Lyrics in 1858 as A Retrospect), and her dedication of that same first collection of poetry... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | As a member of the Langham Place GroupEF
counted most of the women activists of the day among her friends. Her far-flung circle of associates included Adelaide Procter
and Frances Power Cobbe
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 183, 16 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
suffered in various ways as a result of the trial. The sense that she had prevaricated, at the very least, alienated many of her associates on The English Woman's Journal, including Emily Davies |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Hays | She remained friends with Anna Jameson
, Isa Craig
, and Emily Faithfull
, but the biographer of the last-named surmises that Hays's loyalty to Faithfull (whose reputation was tarnished because of her involvement in... |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
Friends, Associates | Jessie Boucherett | Partly through her membership of the Kensington Society
(a social and political discussion group of about fifty women inaugurated in 1865), JB
broadened her acquaintance with significant members of the feminist movement, including Frances Power Cobbe |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | ST
's career as a writer introduced her to many leading literary figures (especially those of Scots origin) whom she entertainingly describes in Three Generations. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911. 261-344 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Davies | In London, ED
met John Stuart Mill
and Harriet Taylor
. At Emily Faithfull
's parties, frequented by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Isa Craig
, and Bessie Rayner Parkes, she met Anthony Trollope
, Louis Blanc |
Leisure and Society | George Eliot | When the Leweses celebrated their move to The Priory and their son Charlie's promotion and twenty-first birthday with a party, Clementia Taylor
and one or two other women attended, but Bessie Rayner Parkes
did not... |
Occupation | John Stuart Mill | JSM
served as independent MP for Westminster from 1865 to 1868. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1985. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. vii The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1992. |
Occupation | Ellen Wood | By now an established and successful writer, EW
became proprietor and editor (in succession to Isa Craig
) of The Argosy, a monthly periodical that showcased her work. She bought it from publisher Alexander Strahan
. Montgomery, Katherine F. “Ladies who Launch: the Argosy Magazine and Ellen Price Wood’s Perilous Voyages”. Women’s Writing, No. 4, pp. 523 - 39. 525 |
politics | Emily Davies | Committee members included Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
, Elizabeth Bostock
, Isa Craig
, Russell Gurney
, G. W. Hastings
, James Heywood
, and Louisa, Lady Goldsmid
. |
politics | Emily Faithfull | By 1859 The English Woman's Journal was felt to be no longer adequate on its own for promoting women's work, and Jessie Boucherett
suggested the creation of a society which would deal specifically with this... |
politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Isa Craig
, Emily Davies
, Bessie Parkes
, Jessie Boucherett
, and Elizabeth Garrett
were members of the committee. Later on Clementia Taylor
joined it too. Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 154-5 |