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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Stickney Ellis | SSE
edited Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook at some point following LEL
's death in 1838. In this she voiced her own admiration of Elizabeth Fry
, as well as contributing much of the verse for the years 1843-45. Landow, George P., editor. Victorian Research Web. http://www.victorianweb.org/. Boyle, Andrew. An Index to the Annuals. Andrew Boyle. 88 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | It interweaves two stories of a London of two classes remote from each other. In the upper-class story a woman, Miss Lucy Neville (whose supposed quixotism leads to a comparison with activist Elizabeth Fry
)... |
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 |
Publishing | Hannah More | She presented a copy of this book (a compilation from her earlier writings on prayer) to Elizabeth Fry
. Stott, Anne. Hannah More: The First Victorian. Oxford University Press. 323 |
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... |
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... |
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 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... |
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