Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119 -22.
119-20
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Lucie Duff Gordon | Lucie Duff Gordon
's Letters from the Cape were included in Francis Galton
's anthology Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel in 1862-3; her mother, Sarah Austin
, again provided a brief introduction. Duff Gordon, Lucie, and Sarah Austin. Letters from the Cape. Macmillan, 1864, pp. 119 -22. 119-20 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1917 (1864): 104 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | Her nephew the scientist and eugenicist Sir Francis Galton
, who was born in 1822, believed firmly that his aunt was a trouble-maker. |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Stopes | The Stopes family had a diverse group of friends and acquaintances. Norman Maccoll
, then the editor of the Athenæum, was a frequent lunch guest. Other guests included the noted Shakespearean scholar Frederick James Furnivall |
Leisure and Society | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning
, Ruskin
, Tennyson
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Francis Galton
, Percy Lubbock
, and John Tyndall |
Textual Features | A. S. Byatt | Here the first-person male narrator, a tiny dwarf-like man named Phineas Gilbert Nanson, on impulse abandons his work towards a PhD in English (Byatt skewers a gallery of predictably eccentric and pretentious academics), rejecting poststructural... |