Theodore Parker

Standard Name: Parker, Theodore

Connections

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death Jessie Ellen Cadell
She was buried, says Richard Garnett, in the cemetery which holds the remains of Mrs. Browning and Landor and Theodore Parker and so many other gifted men and women of English race.
Garnett, Richard et al. “Introduction”. The Ruba’yat of Omar Khayam, edited by Richard Garnett, translated by. Jessie Ellen Cadell, John Lane, 1899, p. v - xxx.
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Education Frances Power Cobbe
Her continuing studies, particularly of theology, benefitted from access to Archbishop Marsh's Library in Dublin (though it was ostensibly open only to gentlemen and graduates). Her reading at this period may have included Marian Evans, later George Eliot
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
A letter to Parker in 1848 challenging him on his beliefs inaugurated an epistolary friendship.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
During her 1860 sojourn in Italy she declined an invitation to meet George Eliot because the latter was living with a married man. Her friendship with distinguished scientist Mary Somerville blossomed during this trip, and...
Friends, Associates Julia Ward Howe
Howe and her husband had a close friendship with Theodore Parker .
Richards, Laura Elizabeth et al. Julia Ward Howe: 1819’1910. Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
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In the preface to her collection of moral essays Is Polite Society Polite?, Howe cites him as a chief inspiration: Parker...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
In treating the need for other pursuits for spinsters and widows she touches on the topical subjects of religious sisterhoods, female doctors, higher education for women, female philanthropists such as Maria Rye , and feminist...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Power Cobbe
This final exposition gives a nice summary of FPC 's views. Authorizing herself with reference to Theodore Parker , she says: We are not the equals of men, but their equivalents. We are not their...
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
Benjamin Jowett wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker . Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman . The book was reviewed widely—at times...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
The first of US Unitarian Theodore Parker 's posthumous fourteen-volume Collected Works appeared from Trübner , with a preface by their editor, FPC .
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Timeline

1846: US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published...

Writing climate item

1846

US transcendentalist Theodore Parker published Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Texts

Parker, Theodore. The Collected Works of Theodore Parker. Editor Cobbe, Frances Power, Trübner, 1871, 14 vols.