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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
Friends, Associates | Gertrude Bell | Her closest friend at Oxford was Mary Talbot
, niece of William Gladstone
. Other friends included Edith Langridge
and Janet Hogarth
, sister of archaeologist David Hogarth
. Wallach, Janet. Desert Queen. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 22 |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, pp. 390-11. 400 |
Wealth and Poverty | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
was short of money in her later years, and applied unsuccessfully to Gladstone
for help out of the Civil List
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Travel | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
used her growing influence and reputation as a journalist to secure means for a research expedition to India, the first of several major professional travels. She thanked the Prime Minister, Gladstone
, for... |
Publishing | Mary Frances Billington | MFB
sent William Ewart Gladstone
a copy to thank him for his help in facilitating her expedition. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Isabella Bird | After IB
's return from her travels in Persia and Tibet, Prime Minister William Gladstone
, other British MPs, and professional organisations all requested her audience and invited her to speak about her experiences. Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications. 179 |
Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | MB
's rendering contributed to making the journal a sensation in England, and a major influence on a generation and more of English journal writers, including Katherine Mansfield
. It is, indirectly, the inspiration for... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | This book has a frontispiece by Ford Madox Brown
. Brown had also produced two illustrations for MB
's fairy tale Blue Ogven. Ford, Ford Madox. Ford Madox Brown: A Record of His Life and Work. Longmans, Green. 354 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 37, 36 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | One Thing Needful is remarkable for its portrayal of a wheelchair-bound man as heroic: he is the only person able to rescue a child from a burning building, because of the exceptional strength of his... |
Publishing | Anna Brassey | By 1877, AB
's writing also appeared in major periodicals including Fraser's Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and the Contemporary Review. In the latter, she published her diary from an 1885 voyage to Norway... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill
in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone
and his wife
in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury |
Textual Features | Josephine Butler | Using St Catherine as an example, JB
sets out to illustrate the degree to which the efforts and endeavours of a single person can have significant impact on the society in which they live. After... |
Material Conditions of Writing | A. S. Byatt | She finished writing this book in St Deiniol's Library
near Hawarden Castle, repository of the collection of William Ewart Gladstone
, and included in her novel all the flower names in a Victorian book... |
Reception | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold
thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time... |