qtd. in
Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900.
8
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Anthologization | Mary Julia Young | An abridged version of this novel was included in an odd collection: Tales of My Landlady, compiled by William Thomas Haley
and published in 1843-4. Also included were versions of Frances Sheridan
's The... |
Education | Muriel Box | MB
early learned to read for herself (with some help from Reading Without Tears, a mid-Victorian textbook by Favell Lee Bevan, later Mrs Mortimer
) because her parents were often too busy to satisfy... |
Education | Emma Marshall | At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans
. qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 |
Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | One of the poems MG
had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert)
. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | FK
fell in love for the first time, with fellow actor Augustus Craven
when they appeared together in Victor Hugo
's Hernani, but the relationship ended in heartbreak for her. Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. Simon and Schuster, 2000. 45, 47 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
's paternal, French grandmother, Louise Swanton Belloc
, was a children's writer, a translator, intimate friend of Stendhal and Victor Hugo
, and the author of a life of Byron
(for which Stendhal
supplied... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Waters argues that MEB
ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less... |
Literary responses | Emma Robinson | The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley
, again reviewing ER
as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the... |
Literary responses | Josephine Butler | Some of their strongest support came from outside England. A letter from Victor Hugo
dated 20 March 1870 contained his declaration of support: I am with you, madame and ladies. I am with you to... |
Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady, Athenæum. J. Lection. 349 (1834): 508 |
politics | Anna Kingsford | AK
's active campaign against vivisection and in support of vegetarianism began as early as 1872, when she published a letter by Frances Power Cobbe
in The Lady's Own Paper. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 40 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Camilla Crosland | Since then CC
's reputation has all but disappeared. Her works are not included in any major anthologies and she is rarely studied. Only her translations of Hugo
seem to have lasted. Yet as McCormack... |