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.
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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="">After</span> Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
22
, 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.

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.

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