Browning, Robert, and Julia Wedgwood. “Introduction”. Robert Browning and Julia Wedgwood: A Broken Friendship as Revealed by Their Letters, edited by Richard Curle, Frederick A. Stokes, p. vii - xxiii.
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|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
wrote on a remarkable range of topics which provoked lively responses. Her piece on canine consciousness in the Quarterly Review in 1872 drew an expression of admiration from Darwin
, and she published anecdotes... |
| Publishing | Julia Wedgwood | JW
published The Boundaries of Science in Macmillan's Magazine: a critique of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary thinking which was admired by Darwin
(her uncle by marriage). Wedgwood, Julia. “The Boundaries of Science”. Macmillan’s Magazine, pp. 134-8. |
| Publishing | Mathilde Blind | |
| politics | Frances Power Cobbe | The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot
to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords
, her bill was countered in the... |
| Other Life Event | Isabella Hamilton Robinson | After the scandal, those involved returned to lives of relative anonymity. The impact on Edward Lane
's professional life was negligible. He continued to recieve patients at Moor Park (among them Charles Darwin
), and... |
| Occupation | Herbert Spencer | Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Naden | CN
wrote a letter on this date thanking for a favourable review. The Story of Claricewas written during her convalescence, after a sharp attack of illness, in 1886, just as other poems dated from... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 119-23 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Mary Russell Mitford
wrote disapprovingly of HM
's claims: I see no good in these experiments. Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers. 2: 281 |
| Literary responses | L. S. Bevington | The collection enjoyed great success in scientific circles. Charles Darwin
read it, an unusual honour since he had not opened a volume of verse for fifteen years. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 9: 228 |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Ross
's epilogue both praises FD
's work and seeks to recommend it by associating it with Darwin
, John Wesley
, and Voltaire
. Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press. 205-6 |
| Literary responses | Mathilde Blind | The Ascent of Man was hailed in the press. The Academy reviewer wrote: A reviewer who is so fortunate as to light on a book like this, lays it down with regret, and fears that... |
| Literary responses | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Leighton
and Reynolds
suggest that this poem, together with Barrett Browning
's Aurora Leigh, is one of the few bold attempts to tackle the woman question in verse and it is clearly influenced by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Giberne | AG
deals briskly and summarily with new scientific ideas, apparently with reference to Darwin
's Origin of Species (dating from fourteen years earlier). Mr Chetwynd, though he doubts the efficacy of the individual's direct line... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Cambridge | In Sic Vos Non VobiAC
rejects accepted knowledge of the spiritual realm. Instead, the speaker sympathizes with the scientific community of Darwinian
evolutionary theorists who search for Truth and Right with steadfast hearts in... |
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