Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Davies | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | 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 |
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. |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter
and Louise Guiney
, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe
(whose funeral she and Annie Fields
attended in... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Highly conscious of this legacy, and of her position as the niece of poet and essayist Matthew Arnold
, MAW
saw herself as working in the Arnoldian family tradition of earnest, conscientious, socially responsible political... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's father, Thomas Arnold
, was the second son and namesake of the eminent Victorian headmaster Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold
was his elder brother. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 2 Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | His mother, born Julia Arnold
, was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold
. She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne. 15 |
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