Matthew Arnold

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Standard Name: Arnold, Matthew

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Residence Mary Anne Barker
MAB and her husband, Frederick Broome , called their cottage at the sheep station, from their own name, Broomielaw. It stood in the Malvern Hills on the banks of the Selwyn River, attached...
Occupation Mary Frances Billington
MFB was earning enough from her career in journalism to be able to support herself by her late teens. She established herself as a successful writer and editor for national dailies and a career journalist...
Textual Production Lilian Bowes Lyon
LBL 's first book was a novel, The Buried Stream, titled from a line by Matthew Arnold .
Another novel, The Spreading Tree, 1931, published as by D.J. Cotman, has been ascribed to her.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Intertextuality and Influence Emily Brontë
Despite the slightness of her oeuvre and Wuthering Heights's initial lack of popularity, EB emerged early as a major influence on other writers. Matthew Arnold paid early tribute by comparing her to Byron in...
Friends, Associates Charlotte Brontë
Numerous friends and acquaintances of CB wrote tributes or obituaries which initiated the legend of the Brontës and Charlotte in particular: Harriet Martineau in the Daily News on April 6; Matthew Arnold in a short...
Residence Rhoda Broughton
The move, undertaken so that RB might be closer to her publisher, and on the assurance of Matthew Arnold that they would receive a warm welcome,
Wood, Marilyn. Rhoda Broughton: Profile of a Novelist. Paul Watkins.
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was to provide them with a home for...
Friends, Associates Rhoda Broughton
RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...
Friends, Associates Rhoda Broughton
The Times obituary (which was accompanied by an editorial) commented that Broughton herself was more entertaining than her novels, filling her social role far more brilliantly than any of her Joans or Nancies or Belindas...
Textual Production Mary Butts
It includes In Bloomsbury, The House Party, Widdershins, Brightness Falls (titled from the famous lyric by Thomas Nashe ), and Friendship's Garland (whose title is better known as that of a volume...
Intertextuality and Influence Rosa Nouchette Carey
One of the many novels which RNC chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)...
Literary responses Caroline Clive
The Edinburgh Review praised her for displaying a co-existence of the synthetic and analytic modes of looking at things, the general want of which is the great defect of most modern poetry.
Partridge, Eric Honeywood. “Mrs. Archer Clive”. Literary Sessions, Scholartis Press.
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The reviewer...
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...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot , Frances Sarah Colenso and her husband Bishop Colenso (while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett , Charles Kingsley , W. E. H. Lecky , Sir Charles Lyell
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's importance to her contemporaries is most readily recalled today by the fact that Matthew Arnold thought her a worthy target of his corrective wisdom in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time...
Friends, Associates Anne Conway
The scholar and traveller François Mercure Van Helmont had arrived at Ragley, where he came as physician to AC , and stayed to live as her protégé.
According to Marjorie Hope Nicolson , he...

Timeline

December 1848: Arthur Hugh Clough published The Bothie of...

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December 1848

Arthur Hugh Clough published The Bothie of Tober-na-Fuosich, later reprinted as The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich.

February 1849: Matthew Arnold published his first volume...

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February 1849

Matthew Arnold published his first volume of poetry, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, anonymously under the initial A.

October 1852: Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna,...

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October 1852

Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.

21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...

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21 March 1853

The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough a classically misogynist letterabout women writers, their works and their looks.

November 1853: Matthew Arnold published Poems: A New Ed...

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November 1853

Matthew Arnold published Poems: A New Edition.

By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...

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By 2 January 1858

Matthew Arnold 's Merope: a Tragedy was published.

By 6 May 1865: Matthew Arnold published Essays in Criticism,...

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By 6 May 1865

Matthew Arnold published Essays in Criticism, First Series; the second series followed in 1888.

By 31 August 1867: Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach (probably written...

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By 31 August 1867

Matthew Arnold 's Dover Beach (probably written in 1851) was published in New Poems.

By 20 February 1869: Matthew Arnold published his sweeping work...

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By 20 February 1869

Matthew Arnold published his sweeping work of cultural criticism, Culture and Anarchy.

1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...

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1880

Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.

1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...

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1 October 1880

Mason College or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason , who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors to students.

28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...

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28 September 1883

A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant , gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors , to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.

November 1888: Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, Second...

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November 1888

Matthew Arnold 's Essays in Criticism, Second Series were published six months after his death.

Texts

Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
Arnold, Matthew. Lectures and Essays in Criticism. Editors Super, R. H. and Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor, University of Michigan Press, 1962.