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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson
on visual... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | Friends were still being added to the Lambs' circle late in their lives, including literary friends like John Clare
and Thomas Hood
. Charles corresponded with Mary Shelley
; ML
corresponded with Mary Matilda Betham |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucy Knox | In Carlyle, LK
eulogizes an old family friend, Thomas Carlyle
, and thanks the mourners who gathered at his dishonoured grave. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kingsley | When she met him, Kingsley was experiencing severe religious doubts. Fanny's influence in his religious development during his undergraduate years should not be underestimated. She encouraged him to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, Thomas Carlyle |
Intertextuality and Influence | Annie Keary | She took as implicit motto for all her own writings the words from Thomas Carlyle
's Biography (on the foolishness of both writer and subject) with which Elizabeth Gaskell
prefaced Mary Barton. Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan. 196 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Kavanagh | Later in his eventful life he entered into a common-law marriage with a woman named Marie Rose, with whom he had three children. He knew Thomas Carlyle
and he apparently rented rooms to Karl Marx |
politics | Geraldine Jewsbury | Although she often admired Thomas Carlyle
's political opinions, GJ
was deeply ambivalent about his belief that a woman's responsibility in life was to find herself some sort of man her superior—& obey him loyally... |
Wealth and Poverty | Geraldine Jewsbury | Mary Aitken Carlyle
and John Forster
aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, John Ruskin
, and Thomas Hardy
. Harriet
and George Grote
were also involved. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. xi,187 |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | In January 1850 GJ
published a controversial article entitled Religious Faith and Modern Scepticism in the radical Westminster Review. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
translated the writings of the Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini
, including his reviews of Carlyle
; her versions appeared in 1844 in the British and Foreign Review. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 89 |
Textual Features | Geraldine Jewsbury | In To-day, the first of these articles, she describes what she sees as a pervasive feeling of discontent in English society and argues that there is no room in the old faiths for the... |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | She had begun writing the novel in 1842 in collaboration with Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
. There is some dispute over the novel's collaborative origins. Biographer Susanne Howe
reports that GJ
worked with both... |
Dedications | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman
may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
... |
Dedications | Geraldine Jewsbury | It was respectfully Jewsbury, Geraldine. Constance Herbert. Hurst and Blackett. prelims |
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