Israel Zangwill

Standard Name: Zangwill, Israel

Connections

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Friends, Associates Frances Hodgson Burnett
Her newly-made friends from 1887-9 included the writer Israel Zangwill in London, Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and his wife in Florence. Back in the USA she made another friend-as-collaborator, the dramatic-rights agent Elisabeth Marbury
Friends, Associates Evelyn Sharp
She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson , of Hertha Ayrton , physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould . These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking...
Literary responses Frances Hodgson Burnett
Israel Zangwill , hearing this book read aloud as work-in-progress, called it the book of [her] life . . . so virile that it is amazing.
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Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004.
180
As in her best-known works (some of those...
Literary responses Amy Levy
The Jewish press was outraged by what it saw as the antisemitism of this novel. The Jewish Chronicle did not review it, but implied strong disapprobation in an article entitled Critical Jews. The Jewish...
Reception Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
This novel received excellent reviews and in early 1920 reached the short-list of three English submissions for the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse, which however went in the end to Cicely Hamilton . In The Observer...
Textual Production Emmeline Pankhurst
The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie

Timeline

1892: Israel Zangwill published his novel Children...

Writing climate item

1892

Israel Zangwill published his novel Children of the Ghetto, set in East London.
Sandhu, Sukhdev. “Come hungry, leave edgy”. London Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2003, pp. 10-13.
12

28 March 1912: The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated...

National or international item

28 March 1912

The Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) was defeated in a House of Commons vote, after passing its second reading (the previous year) with a huge majority.
Holton, Sandra Stanley. “Women and the Vote”. Women’s History: Britain, 1850-1945, edited by June Purvis and June Purvis, University College London, 1995, pp. 277-05.
294
Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
133
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
135
Frye, Kate Parry. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary. Editor Crawford, Elizabeth, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013.
98-100

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