Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
Sally Mitchell
Standard Name: Mitchell, Sally
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Maria Grey | Victorian scholar Sally Mitchell
suggests that the existing national secondary education system available to young women owes much of its development to MG
's selfless work. |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | This work's simplicity appealed to Geraldine Jewsbury
, the reviewer for the Athenæum. She noted that it was a charming and touching story, wrought from the humblest and simplest of materials; but the interest... |
Textual Features | Julia Kavanagh | It features a male protagonist, but critic Sally Mitchell
notes that even here Kavanagh pursues her favorite topic of a lively girl eventually loved by a man who once viewed her as a child. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | In 1900 Mudie's Library
stocked all of JK
's novels, but not until after the mid twentieth century did scholars cease to see her works chiefly as domestic, ladylike, and safe. Those who do mention... |
Textual Production | Anna Kingsford | While compaigning for suffrage, AK
owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford. Sources disagree about the length of her editorship (as... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Kingsford | According to Cobbe's biographer Sally Mitchell
, Kingsford asked Cobbe, after her return to London from Paris, to sponsor her for membership in the Somerville Club
, the first woman's club, then recently founded. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 285 |
Anthologization | Vernon Lee | VL
also published An Essay on Art and Life (1896), Limbo, and Other Essays (1897), and Hortus Vitae, Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903). Mannocchi, Phyllis. “’Vernon Lee’: A Reintroduction and Primary Bibliography”. English Literature in Transition, Vol. 26 , No. 4, pp. 231-67. 240-2 |
Anthologization | Vernon Lee | The title piece first appeared in the Contemporary Review in July 1898. It was reprinted in Andrea Broomfield
's and Sally Mitchell
's Prose by Victorian Women, 1996. Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland. 711-29 |
Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Sally Mitchell
, in her encyclopedia of Victorian Britain, praises BRP
as providing an indispensable introduction to the activities, ideology, and atmosphere of the early years of the middle-class women's movement. Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | Scholars Mitchell
and Broomfield
observe that like Kant
before her and Oscar Wilde
after, Eastlake sought to define a realm of human experience to and for which only art could speak, whereas Ruskin believed that... |
Literary responses | Edith J. Simcox | As noted by Laurie Zierer
in Broomfield
and Mitchell
's anthology of Victorian women writers, EJS
's connection with George Eliot
has saved her from permanent obscurity, [but] her stature as a Victorian writer and... |
Health | Ellen Wood | In 1831 the curvature settled and ceased to give her pain. It left her, however, permanently weakened, and eventually contributed to her death through pressure on her vital organs. Sally Mitchell
notes that as an... |
Wealth and Poverty | Ellen Wood | At some point in the early 1850s, some unspecified event prompted Henry Wood
to withdraw from business. It may be that he lost his job, or went bankrupt: it sounds as if the family were... |
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