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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. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Brontë | |
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. 50 |
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. |
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. 127 |
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.