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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Jane Welsh Carlyle | She had planned to host a tea-party whose guests were to include Geraldine Jewsbury
, John Ruskin
, the J. A. Froude
and his second wife
, and Margaret Oliphant
. Ruskin
was not told... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Carlyle | Following TC
's death, James Anthony Froude
published Reminiscences of Carlyle, which presented an unfavourable picture of the Carlyles' marriage. This angered their friend Margaret Oliphant
, and she responded with an essay providing... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | Several of FK
's sisters married prominent figures. Charlotte Maria
married historian James Anthony Froude
(FK
introduced the couple when Froude visited her husband Charles Kingsley at Ilfracombe in Devon), and Marianne
married... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | While in Oxford ST
occasionally attended lectures (including those of James Anthony Froude
and Edward Augustus Freeman
), commemorations, and boat races. She met several women in charge of the Oxford women's colleges: Madeleine Shaw Lefevre |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | As his fame grew, Thomas was increasingly invited to the homes of London's political and intellectual elite, while Jane moved in her own social circle, which included Charles Dickens
, John Forster
, Giuseppe Mazzini |
| Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
| Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Charles | EC
, however, ascribes the formative moments in her intellectual development to other sources. She counts among her early influences and inspirations writers Harriet Martineau
and Anne Trelawny
, and naturalist and artist Colonel Hamilton Smith |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
| Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning
, Frederic Leighton
, Clara Schumann
, Alfred Tennyson
, Dean Stanley
, J. A. Froude |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Clive | This explanation for Paul Ferroll's motives for killing his wife begins by quoting Froude
's Henry the Eighth: A man does not murder his wife gratuitously. |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Charles | By 1848, EC
was praised by such notable people as historian J. A. Froude
and Alfred Lord Tennyson
, who read her early manuscripts. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 629 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 340 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | This book resulted in public outcry. Douglas Jerrold
responded with wit: There is no God, and Harriet Martineau is his Prophet. qtd. in Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 299 |
Timeline
1849: J. A. Froude, writing as Zeta published his...
Writing climate item
1849
J. A. Froude
, writing as Zeta published his novel The Nemesis of Faith.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
377
Clough, Arthur Hugh. The Correspondence of Arthur Hugh Clough. Editor Mulhauser, Frederick L., Clarendon, 1957, 2 vols.
246-7
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
1856: J. A. Froude published the first volumes...
Writing climate item
1856
J. A. Froude
published the first volumes of his influential twelve-volume History of England from the Death of Cardinal Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada; it was completed in 1870.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...
Building item
November 1860
Thomas Hill Green
became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...
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21 April 1869
The Metaphysical Society
was founded; women were excluded.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
190
1888: J. A. Froude published his influential and...
Writing climate item
1888
J. A. Froude
published his influential and imperialist The English in the West Indies.
Edwards, Paul. “Black Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. The Black Presence in English Literature, edited by David Dabydeen and David Dabydeen, Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 50-67.
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Texts
Froude, James Anthony. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. J. W. Parker and Son; Longmans, Green, 1870, 12 vols.
Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. Editors Carlyle, Thomas and James Anthony Froude, Longmans, Green, 1883, 3 vols.
Carlyle, Thomas. Reminiscences. Editor Froude, James Anthony, Longmans, Green, 1881.
Froude, James Anthony. “Review of Harriet Martineaus Letters on the Laws of Mans Nature and DevelopmentFrasers Magazine, Vol.
43
, p. 418. Froude, James Anthony, and G. Pearson. The English in the West Indies. Longmans, Green, 1888.
Froude, James Anthony. The Nemesis of Faith. J. Chapman, 1849.