Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
| Education | Sarah Austin | During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. |
| Education | John Stuart Mill | |
| Education | Fredrika Bremer | After FB became a published author, in the early 1830s, she embarked on an ambitious programme of reading, drawing on books in several languages. Her English friend Frances Lewin
helped her in studying James Mill |
| Education | Florence Nightingale | Florence received a liberal education from her father. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Joseph Parkes
, Bessie's father, was a solicitor and a Unitarian of Radical sympathies. In 1833 he was secretary to a parliamentary commission on municipal reform, which recommended important changes in local government. At about... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lucie Duff Gordon | John Austin
, Lucie's father, legal philosopher, was the son of a successful miller and corn merchant. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 14 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham
and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray, 1886. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Trollope | While in France, FT
also met the young Frances Wright
, a controversial figure who later played a significant role in her life. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979. 30-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Leigh Hunt | While serving his sentence in the Surrey Gaol in Horsemonger Lane (missing his family and ill with lung disease caused by confinement), LH
received as visitors Maria Edgeworth
, William Hazlitt
, Jeremy Bentham
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | John Austin
was a pupil of Bentham
, and intimate with all the friends of his master. Ross, Janet. Three Generations of Englishwomen. John Murray, 1888, 2 vols. vii Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press, 1985. 29 |
| Friends, Associates | John Stuart Mill | He was introduced to Jeremy Bentham
through his father. He also associated with John Austin
and George Grote
. Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924. 38, 51 |
| Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Friends of LDG
's parents included political radicals and commentators of the day, such as Bentham
, theCarlyles
, James Mill
, Macaulay
, and Sydney Smith
. Her own childhood friends included her... |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | The Utilitarian and political theorist Jeremy Bentham
first made contact with FW
. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984. 49 |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | Some time this year, AW
met the socialist economist William Thompson
at Jeremy Bentham
's house in Queen's Square Place, London. Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994. vii |
Timeline
1789: Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles...
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1789
Jeremy Bentham
's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation was published.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
158-9
1791: Jeremy Bentham completed plans for the Panopticon,...
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1791
Jeremy Bentham
completed plans for the Panopticon, a model utilitarian prison.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
168
1797: Jeremy Bentham made the first known reference...
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1797
Jeremy Bentham
made the first known reference in England to the use of the contraceptive sponge.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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1812-1816: Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly...
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1812-1816
Millbank Prison was built at a cost of nearly £500,000.
Briggs, John et al. Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History. St Martin’s, 1996.
168
Emsley, Clive. Crime and Society in England 1750-1900. 2nd ed., Longman, 1996.
248
1815: A woman called Miss Morgan printed a pamphlet...
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1815
A woman called Miss Morgan
printed a pamphlet entitled The Gaol of the City of Bristol compared with what a Gaol ought to be: an indictment of prison conditions.
Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues.
31
24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...
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24 January 1824
The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528-32
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24 January 1824: The first issue of the radical Westminster...
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24 January 1824
The first issue of the radical Westminster Review was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 528-32
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1830: Political theorist Jeremy Bentham published...
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1830
Political theorist Jeremy Bentham
published his Constitutional Code; for the use of all nations, and all governments professing liberal opinions, in one volume.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Bentham, Jeremy. Constitutional Code: Vol. I. Editors Rosen, Frederick and James Henderson Burns, Clarendon Press, 1983.
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By 18 September 1847: John Conolly published The Construction and...
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By 18 September 1847
John Conolly
published The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, which likened the asylum to a home with a benevolent superintendent father.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
28, 33-5, 84, 255
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1038 (1847): 973
1900: Sir Leslie Stephen published The English...
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1900
Sir Leslie Stephen
published The English Utilitarians, a three-volume study of Jeremy Bentham
, James Mill
, and John Stuart Mill
.
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Texts
Bentham, Jeremy. Constitutional Code: Vol. I. Editors Rosen, Frederick and James Henderson Burns, Clarendon Press, 1983.