Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Bagehot
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | EB
's sister Eliza married the future writer and political theorist Walter Bagehot
on 21 April 1858, and when her husband died early, on 24 March 1877, she inherited considerable wealth. |
| Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
| Literary responses | Emily Eden | EE
herself remarked that the novel had had more success than I require, and considerably more than I expected. Eden, Anthony, and Emily Eden. “Introduction”. Two Novels, Victor Gollancz, 1969, pp. 7 - 20. 16-17 |
| Literary responses | Robert Browning | Critical response was very positive. Gerald Massey
in the Athenæum proclaimed Browning a great dramatic poet and felt that Shakespeare
would have approved. Walter Bagehot
characterized his style as grotesque, a judgement which has stuck. Irvine, William, and Park Honan. The Book, the Ring, and the Poet: A Biography of Robert Browning. McGraw-Hill, 1974. 397 |
| Textual Production | Emilie Barrington | EB
published a life of the writer and political theorist Walter Bagehot
, her brother-in-law. British Library Catalogue. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. 643 (14 May 1914): 236 |
Timeline
2 September 1843
The Economist, a new weekly founded by businessman and MP James Wilson
, issued its first number.
July 1855
The first issue of the National Review was published; it became the most celebrated Unitarian periodical and one of the most illustrious quarterlies of the century.
1861-77
Walter Bagehot
edited The Economist, a journal founded in 1843 and still in existence. Bagehot had become the journal's director in 1859, and remained its editor until his death.
1867
Walter Bagehot
's classic introduction to British politics, entitled The English Constitution, was published.
16 May 1871
Henry S. King
(husband of the poet Harriet Hamilton King
) set up the publishing firm H. S. King and Co.
at 65 Cornhill, London; taken over by Charles Kegan Paul
in 1877, it...
1872
Walter Bagehot
published Physics and Politics, in which he applied the idea of natural selection to politics.
1879
Walter Bagehot
's Literary Studies, a two-volume collection of his literary essays, was published posthumously with a memoir by Richard Holt Hutton
.