Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | By the end of her life MG
had lived longer in the USA than in Britain. In the context of her American incarnation, she writes of the capacity to shift from one national viewpoint... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Beeton | IB
's younger half-sister Lucy Dorling
married William Smiles, whose father, Samuel Smiles
, authored the best-selling Self-Help (1859). Freeman, Sarah. Isabella and Sam: The Story of Mrs Beeton. Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1977. 14 Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. vii - xxxvii. xx |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Meteyard | She became connected through her writing to Douglas Jerrold
, Mary
and William Howitt
, and Harriet Martineau
. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Eliza Meteyard | Dedicated by permission to William Gladstone
, The Life of Josiah Wedgwood provides a full history of pottery in Britain, beginning with the Celts and Romans. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970. |
Literary responses | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The timing, almost coincident with the outbreak of war, caused de la Mare to add that the touch of irony in its title at the present moment is unintentional. He likened EWW
to Samuel Smiles |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1843 (1863): 261 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick-Room sold well, and HM
was paid £125 by Moxon
for it. Samuel Smiles
in 1883 considered it one of her most delightful books. qtd. in Frawley, Maria H. “’A Prisoner to the Couch’: Harriet Martineau, Invalidism, and Self-Representation”. The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability, edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 174-88. 186 Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 2: 171, 174 |
Literary responses | Constance Naden | Those returning thanks for complimentary copies included Herbert Spencer
, Samuel Smiles
(full of profound truth), Charles Lapworth
(an education to read), and William Tilden
(who politely dissents from Lewins's opinion... |
Reception | Isabella Beeton | Scholar Nicola Humble
argues that the book in large part created the new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life. Beeton, Isabella. “Introduction”. Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, edited by Nicola Humble, Abridged, Oxford University Press, 2000, p. vii - xxxvii. xii |
Textual Features | Jessie Boucherett | In this work, which bears a strong imprint of the writings of utilitarian thinker Samuel Smiles
, JB
observes how often middle-class women find themselves unemployable. She notes how limited are these women's expectations: they... |
Textual Production | Mary Howitt | This venture seems to have sprung from William's brief, financially damaging involvement in The People's Journal, 1846-8, whose chaotic business practices were a serious handicap to its programme for rendering workers prudent, sober, independent... |
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