Henry Thomas Buckle

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Standard Name: Buckle, Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas Buckle, with a chin beard, wearing a formal suit.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Jane Hume Clapperton
After completing school, JHC was deeply impressed by Robert Chambers , who encouraged her self-education by telling her that real education begins when one leaves school . . . [it] is better than any amount...
Education Vernon Lee
VL was educated in art and literature by her mother
Gunn, Peter. Vernon Lee: Violet Paget, 1856-1935. Oxford University Press, 1964.
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and half-brother (who was studying languages in preparation for university). With Matilda Paget she read Hugh Blair 's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres...
Friends, Associates Emily Shirreff
ES met Henry Thomas Buckle ; they remained close friends and intellectual companions until his death.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
Health Emily Shirreff
In 1862, the year when Henry Thomas Buckle died, ES went down with an infection and was severely ill.
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Occupation Helen Taylor
From 1872 to 1874 she edited posthumous works by Mill and H. T. Buckle .
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Textual Production Helen Taylor
HT edited and provided a biographical notice for Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle.
Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
In 1872 ES probably contributed to the biographical notice in The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle edited by Helen Taylor .
Ellsworth, Edward W. Liberators of the Female Mind: The Shirreff Sisters, Educational Reform, and the Women’s Movement. Greenwood, 1979.
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Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols.
prelims

Timeline

By 4 July 1857: Henry Thomas Buckle published the first volume...

Writing climate item

By 4 July 1857

Henry Thomas Buckle published the first volume of his History of Civilization in England.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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Texts

Buckle, Henry Thomas. History of Civilization in England. J. W. Parker, 1861, 2 vols.
Buckle, Henry Thomas. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle. Editor Taylor, Helen, Longmans, Green, 1872, 3 vols.