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Education | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice said she was the least favoured of the Potter girls, and had little education. There is disagreement among biographers as to how far she shared her sisters' tuition by resident governesses in a wide... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions... |
Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Textual Production | Emily Shirreff | Some of her other works on education are On the Connection Between the Kindergarten and the School (1880), Home Education in Relation to Kindergarten, Two Lectures (1884), The Kindergarten at Home (1884), and Moral Training:... |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | Bertram was the first Freethinker Schreiner had encountered, and he strongly influenced her life, although she knew him for only three days. He lent her a copy of Herbert Spencer
's First Principles. Spencer's... |
politics | C. E. Plumptre | Plumptre was an Individualist and an admirer of the social and evolutionary philosophy of Herbert Spencer
. Gould, Frederick James. Chats with Pioneers of Modern Thought. Watts. 29 |
Textual Features | C. E. Plumptre | CEP
opposes against each other the theories of Design and Evolution and explains her reasons for considering it a duty to choose between them. Aligning herself with the latter, she declares the scientific investigation of... |
Leisure and Society | Constance Naden | CN
joined several debating societies, among them in this year the sociological section, founded in early 1883, of the Birmingham Natural History Society
, whose central concern was the work of Herbert Spencer
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 20-1 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
delivered her essay entitled Data of Ethics (presumably on Herbert Spencer
's work of that title, 1879) to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 22 Daniell, Madeline, and Constance Naden. “Memoir”. Induction and Deduction, edited by Robert Lewins and Robert Lewins, Bickers and Son, p. vii - xviii. ix |
Textual Production | Constance Naden | CN
made a visit back to Mason College
in Birmingham to deliver an address on Herbert Spencer
's The Principles of Sociology to the sociological section of the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society
. Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 26, 51-2 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Travel | Constance Naden | Instead of travelling out entirely by sea, as was usual, the two women went overland through Europe, visiting Vienna and proceeding down the Danube through Budapest on their way to Constantinople. After a pause... |
Health | Constance Naden | While in India CN
contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son. 43 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Naden | Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the... |