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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Wedgwood | Her mother was born Frances Mackintosh
, daughter of the politician and author Sir James Mackintosh
. Fanny
was more worldly than her husband and enjoyed society and literary friends. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 219 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau
. While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice. Skabarnicki, Anne M. “Two Faces of Eve: The Literary Personae of Harriet Martineau and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. The Carlyle Annual, Vol. 11 , pp. 15-30. 20 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Marcet | JM
probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner
and William Hyde Wollaston
; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy
. She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan
, Marcet, Jane. “Introduction”. Chemistry in the Schoolroom: 1806, edited by Hazel Rossotti, AuthorHouse, p. i - xxi. iii, v n6 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber. 278-9, 295 |
Other Life Event | Harriet Martineau | She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria
on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 125 |
Reception | Julia Wedgwood | Harriet Martineau
replied to the eight-year-old JW
's letter; Julia had asked her mother
's permission to write to her friend to tell Martineau how much she enjoyed her stories. Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista. 237, 366n21 |
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