Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol.
101
, pp. 131-49. 134
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Publishing | Mathilde Blind | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Studies in General Science was written around the same time that the works of evolutionary theorists Charles Darwin
and Herbert Spencer
were gaining popularity. With belief in traditional Christian doctrine now threatened by scientific discovery,... |
Textual Features | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | ABB
opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin
's and Herbert Spencer
's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries... |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. S. Bevington | LSB
privately printed Key Notes, her first, slim collection of verses, under the pseudonym Arbor Leigh, containing philosophical reflections on evolution. The pseudonym is probably a nod to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
's epic... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | L. S. Bevington | The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian
evolution. Eijun Senaha
argues that they also reflect Emerson
's transcendentalism. Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol. 101 , pp. 131-49. 134 |
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 |
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... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Lydia Becker | LB
's early interest in plants developed into her first publication. Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage. Source Book Press. 29-30 |
Reception | Jane Austen | JA
's early admirers among her fellow women writers constituted a small, select band. They included Sarah Harriet Burney
, Anne Grant
, Mary Ann Kelty
, Maria Callcott
, Maria Jane Jewsbury
, Harriet Martineau |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.