Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Education | Emilie Barrington | Her school attendance took place abroad. For a year, 1855-1856, she and her sister Zoe both attended a school in Cologne, and in 1858 she joined a Paris finishing school, where her fellow-pupils included... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | His relatives included John Page Wood
, husband of novelist Emma Caroline Wood
. This pair were the parents of Anna Steele
(another novelist), Katharine O'Shea
(mistress and later the wife of Charles Stuart Parnell |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | During her period at Newbridge after her return from school, FPC
became good friends with her nearest neighbour, Sophia Parnell
, great-aunt of Charles Stewart Parnell
. Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin. 1: 169 |
Residence | May Crommelin | Helen C. Black
dated the end of MC
's girlhood in Ireland to the beginning of Irish land troubles: Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. Maclaren. 210 |
politics | Florence Dixie | From 1882, FD
gave most of her political energies to the condition of Ireland. She was opposed to Parnell
and his Land League
, suspecting them of misuse of funds, and believed that only... |
politics | Augusta Gregory | By AG
's own account, her politics shifted around 1896, when she suddenly became aware of the change that had come about in Ireland in those first years after Parnell
's death. Gregory, Augusta. Selected Writings. Editors McDiarmid, Lucy and Maureen Waters, Penguin. 37 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | The Deliverer uses the Biblical story of the rejection of Moses
by the ancient Israelites as an analogue for Parnell
's rejection by the Irish. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 217 |
politics | May Laffan | ML
became involved with various political scenes through her family members and friends. The Fitzgibbon half of her family were conservative Unionists, and she was influenced by her maternal great-uncle Gerald Fitzgibbon
's essay collection... |
Material Conditions of Writing | May Laffan | She was furious at being identified, as she intensely disliked publicity. In an angry letter to George Grove
, editor of the magazine, she wrote: I thought I had clearly made it understood to the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | Other topics touched on here are the prison experience of her nationalist friend Michael Davitt
, her own experiences on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
, and... |
politics | Hannah Lynch | In 1882 Anna's brother Charles Parnell
, president of the Irish Land League
, stopped funds to the Ladies' Land League
and to his sister. Anna never spoke to him again. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Anna Parnell Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
politics | Kate O'Brien | KOB
had been brought up, before the Easter Uprising, to admire Parnell
, John Redmond
, and Mr Asquith
. O’Brien, Kate. My Ireland. B. T. Batsford. 112 |
politics | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell
, with an interest in Nationalist politics... |
politics | Dora Sigerson | DS
accompanied Katharine Tynan
to a mass meeting for the National Land League
at the Rotunda in Dublin, where Charles Parnell
spoke, just as his naming in the O'Shea divorce case was fatally dividing... |
Cultural formation | Dora Sigerson |
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