Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | The history begins with effusive praise for Mary Wollstonecraft's efforts in the late 1700s on behalf of women, as well as for her sterling character (the latter being an act or recuperation). MGF
goes on... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
enlarges on the terrible state of the Irish peasantry, with unemployment surpassing four million and many deaths from starvation. She comments on the Vagrancy Act of 21 June 1824; on the fact that prison... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In her introduction, Carey expresses her wish that her sketches of twelve noble and useful lives be read and studied by women of this generation, and go and do thou likewise be written upon some... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Norton | The early part of the work summarizing the legal position of women reads much like Barbara Leigh Smith
's A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, published the... |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | AO
was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library
includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs
or her husband; a few are from her... |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | In 1856, CR
published an historical short story, The Lost Titian, in The Crayon, a small magazine published in New York. Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne. 100 Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking. 176-9 |
Textual Production | Fanny Kemble | In the third volume of this memoir, she recalls a visit to Newgate
in 1831 with Elizabeth Fry
, remarking about the prisoners, I felt broken-hearted for them, . . . and ashamed for us... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Yonge | CY
edited Biographies of Good Women, Chiefly by Contributors to The Monthly Packet: her subjects include public activists like Elizabeth Fry
and Hannah More
. Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company. 117 Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co. 357 |
Textual Production | Amelia Opie | The publisher was said to have offered her a thousand pounds for this novel and had gone so far as to advertise it for sale. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 231 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Features | Joanna Baillie | The volume included praise of Elizabeth Fry
, and JB
's own epistle To Mrs Siddons, in which, while warmly praising the great tragedienne's former performances, she argues that even in retirement Siddons still... |
Textual Features | Clara Balfour | A chapter which discusses moral heroism . . . in the female character Balfour, Clara. Moral Heroism; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Great and Good. Houlston and Stoneman. prelims |
Textual Features | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Her authors run from Jane Austen
and some contemporaries to Elizabeth Barrett Browning
and Harriet Martineau
. Elizabeth Fry
, Mary Carpenter
, and Florence Nightingale
represent philanthropy, Caroline Herschel
and Mary Somerville
science, and... |
Reception | Lucy Walford | Her portraits of these women have a certain sameness and smack of her treatment of fictional heroines. This novelistic style is well demonstrated in the opening of Elizabeth Fry
's biography, when LW
describes her... |
Publishing | Lucy Walford | LW
's lives of Jane Taylor
, Elizabeth Fry
, Hannah More
, and Mary Somerville
, each originally printed in Blackwood's Magazine, appeared together as Four Biographies from Blackwood in Edinburgh and London. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Hannah More | It exceeded even the high sales of Coelebs. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press. 200 |