Their friendship was long-lasting and extremely close. Its nature is not entirely clear. Scholar Philippa Levine
qualifies BRP
's feelings towards Smith as passionate, noting that her diary is full of constant and adoring references...
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's radical socialist principles were evident in her work for educational and land reform, as well as in her effort in 1885 to stand for parliament.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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Levine, Philippa. “‘The Humanising Influences of Five O’Clock Tea’: Victorian Feminist Periodicals”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
33
, 1990, pp. 293-06.
Burton, Antoinette. “’States of injury’: Josephine Butler on slavery, citizenship, and the Boer War”. Women’s Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race, edited by Ian Christopher Fletcher et al., Routledge, 2000, pp. 18-32.
Levine, Philippa. “’The Humanising Influences of Five O’Clock Tea’: Victorian Feminist Periodicals”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
33
, No. 2, 1990, pp. 293-06.
Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell, 1990.