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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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Publishing | Charlotte Brontë | She started with Henry Colburn
. After Anne and Emily had arranged with Newby for publication of their first novels, she approached a seventh publisher, Smith, Elder, and Co.
. The firm was the publisher... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Greenwell | DG
's essay presents a religiously-based argument emphasizing the importance of education and instruction for those with mental or physical disabilities. She reminds her readers that these conditions are to be looked upon as the... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | L. S. Bevington | This essay embodies moments of what today would be called racism as it makes reference to social Darwinism (the theory originated by LSB
's friend Herbert Spencer
, that extrapolates Darwinian
evolutionary theory to justify... |
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