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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Virginia Woolf | 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
,... |
Education | Arthur Hugh Clough | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
, the reforming Rugby
headmaster, was her illustrious grandfather. |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | 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. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 38 Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983. 2: 246-7 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold
when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas
. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 191 |
Literary responses | Ann Taylor Gilbert | 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. Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons, 1939. 172 |
Literary responses | Jane Taylor | 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... |
Author summary | Emma Jane Worboise | 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... |
Reception | Ann Taylor Gilbert | 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... |
Residence | Harriet Martineau | 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 |
Residence | Mary Augusta Ward | She was essentially orphaned after her parents went to Dublin: her mother never wrote, and her father seldom visited. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 13 |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | EJW
published a biography of the Broad-Church advocate and hero Thomas Arnold
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1641 (1859): 484 |
Textual Production | Emma Jane Worboise | Each issue bore an epigraph from Thomas Arnold
, calling for articles on common subjects, written with a decidedly religious tone. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Cook | Eliza Cook's Journal takes the form of discrete essays by EC
and others; poems, too, were included. The language is informal and conversational, though a heavy use of quotation-marks for words or phrases deemed in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
's next chapter deals with the male counterparts of the previous chapter's examples (Frederic Lamb
, but also Dugald Stewart
and Henry Brougham
), setting the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against... |