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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | CN
met Dr Robert Lewins
, of the Army Medical Department
, at Southport on the River Mersey in Western Lancashire, in 1876. Described as a man of great culture, of wide travel and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Naden | Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the... |
Publishing | Constance Naden | William R. Hughes
counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN
from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Naden | Hughes regarded the most important essay here as the first, Summary of Results, which selectively sketches the history of philosophy insofar as it bears on CN
's own interests. He also judged the second,... |
politics | William Morris | WM
was first introduced to reformist politics by his Oxford friends. He read Charles Kingsley
, Thomas Carlyle
, and John Ruskin
(a particularly influential discovery). Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
saved enough money to attend Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia. for one year, 1895-1896, where her studies included Milton
and Carlyle
. She wrote for the school newspaper and joined a literary... |
Friends, Associates | John Stuart Mill | In London his social circle included Thomas
and Jane Welsh Carlyle
, Harriet Martineau
, and John Roebuck
. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 103, 105, 116 |
Textual Production | John Stuart Mill | In 1850 JSM
published his letter The Negro Question in Fraser's Magazine. Presented as a letter to the editor, it responds to Thomas Carlyle
's Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, which had... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | In 1838, HM
met the British diplomat David Urquhart
, who was known for his championship of Turkey against Russia. Although she recorded her dislike for his social egotism and misogynistic opinions, his hatred and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Linskill | After months of steadily deepening poverty, ML
wrote to Thomas Carlyle
, whom she greatly admired, asking him to obtain her financial assistance from the Royal Literary Fund
. Stamp, Cordelia. Mary Linskill. Caedmon of Whitby. 89 Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son. 26 |
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