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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994. 22 |
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, 1908–2024, 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 |