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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Clara Balfour | CB
met and became a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle
. The ODNB says they met through Jane Carlyle's gratitude to CB
for writing an anti-socialist tract. The FC says they became friends while Balfour... |
| Textual Production | Clara Balfour | In her efforts to promote Temperance and education for women, CB
toured and lectured to various audiences. When asked by Thomas Carlyle
whether she ever ceased to feel nervous before lecturing, she replied: Oh, no... |
| Friends, Associates | Sarah Austin | The couple were also good friends with Thomas
and Jane Carlyle
. SA
helped the Carlyles with their house-hunting in London, |
| Literary responses | Sarah Austin | Around the time of these publications, Thomas Carlyle
commented wryly on SA
's increasing literary reputation, lamenting that she was becoming a London distinguished female. Hamburger, Lotte, and Joseph Hamburger. Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin. University of Toronto Press. 72 |
| Education | Louisa May Alcott | She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan
's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne
's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft
and also warmed... |
| Cultural formation | Grace Aguilar | Her father's family was from Spain and her mother's family was from Portugal. Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press. 136, 176 Abrahams, Beth-Zion. “Grace Aguilar: A Centenary Tribute”. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, Vol. 16 , pp. 137-48. 138 |
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