Thomas Arnold

EA was born at Fox How, the home of the late Doctor Arnold and his family in the Lake District near Grasmere. She grew up in Harborne as the youngest of eight living children...

Between 1 January and 30 June 1897, her reading included but was not limited to the following: Charlotte Brontë , Lady Barlow (a commentator on Charles Darwin ), Dinah Mulock Craik , George Eliot ,...

He was a model student at Rugby School , where Thomas Arnold was headmaster and his son Matthew Arnold a fellow student who became a close friend of Clough's. From Rugby AHC went on to...

Thomas Arnold , the reforming Rugby headmaster, was her illustrious grandfather.

Her father, Thomas Arnold the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold , of Rugby . The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican family, but her father shocked his family by converting to...

Many of her friends objected to what was called her atheistic mesmerism, but Martineau's friendship with the family of Mary and Thomas Arnold , who lived at Fox How in Ambleside, remained fast.

The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas .

Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...

Those who left a record of their enthusiasm for these little books included Robert Southey , Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby School, and Archbishop Whately . James Montgomery and Maria Edgeworth were particularly appreciative of Ann.

In addition to women's political progress, EA's second tour featured talks about a range of subjects: Lewis Carroll , Kenneth Grahame , and Edward Lear ; the historians J. R. Green , Edward Augustus Freeman

EJW was a prolific Victorian novelist who wrote didactic and often sensational tales on domestic, courtship, evangelical, ecumenical (within Protestantism), and anti-Catholic themes. Apart from her nearly fifty novels, she published a book of hymns...

When someone expressed regret that the memoir is so distinctly that of a dissenter she replied with acute insight into the way that minority identity is held to be remarkable while majority identity is normative...

Both in her own time and the twenty-first century, EA is largely known as an Arnold, the granddaughter of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby , niece of Matthew Arnold , and sister of Mrs Humphry Ward

She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Fox How (the Arnold family home) was to her a magical place steeped with intertwined...

She designed it herself, and her recently-acquired friend Wordsworth planted a tree in the grounds. (He also pitched in with her farming experiments.) The house was opposite Fox How, where her friend Thomas Arnold