Charles Wentworth Dilke

Standard Name: Dilke, Charles Wentworth

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
The Athenæum's editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke, commissioned a reply that was attributed to the president of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie. The response argued that HM was...
Publishing Harriet Martineau
After a skirmish with Dilke over whether the Athenæum could claim copyright on the letters, HM, who had accepted no payment from him, published them in book form with Moxon.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 197
Reception Catherine Gore
In her preface she notes that these stories were written before these Reform Bill,
Copeland, Edward. “Virgin Sacrifice: Elizabeth Bennet After Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
22
, 2000, pp. 156-74.
203-4
and argues that silver-fork or fashionable novels have a value for the successful exposure of vices and follies daily and...

Timeline

2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...

Writing climate item

2 January 1828

The first issue of the Athenæum, founded by James Silk Buckingham, appeared.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
32
Marchand, Leslie Alexis. The Athenæum: A Mirror of Victorian Culture. Octagon, 1971.
1-2, 7

As early as 1885: Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission...

Building item

As early as 1885

Octavia Hill gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes.
Brion, Marion, and Anthea Tinker. Women in Housing: Access and Influence. Housing Centre Trust, 1980.
62
Owen, David. English Philanthropy, 1660-1960. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.
383, 385-7
Rodger, Richard. Housing in Urban Britain, 1780-1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction. Macmillan, 1989.
46

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