Matthew Arnold

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...

RB 's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Her wide circle of friends and acquaintances included Henry James (the two became extremely...

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...

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

She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan , Sir George Grove , Edmund Gosse and his wife Ellen , John Morley , and her uncle Matthew Arnold

MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...

The novel features Robert Elsmere's gradual loss of his orthodox Christian faith, and the tension which this causes between the emerging sceptic and his wife, Catherine Leyburn (based on MAW 's friend Laura Lyttleton )...

The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas .

The paper points out the failings of middle-class schools for girls, while quoting with approval Matthew Arnold 's views about the necessity of education for class and national stability. In her conclusion, ED insists that...

The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English...

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...

In Culture and Anarchy (titled after the famous essay collection by Matthew Arnold , 1869 ), Rich mixes her own poetry with the words of nineteenth-century Anglo-American women writers Jane Addams , Susan B. Anthony

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)...

MG was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing...

One of CG 's admirers was Tennyson , who was soon to become Poet Laureate. He re-told one of her tales in Idylls of the King.Matthew Arnold acknowledged her influence is his radically...