Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | John Ruskin | JR
's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, Violet Hunt
, Jean Ingelow
, Flora Shaw
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Thomas Carlyle |
Instructor | Jane Welsh Carlyle | But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle
to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. A. Dillwyn | This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle
(to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his... |
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, 1882. 196 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Barker | MAB
's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder
, to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo
, taken from a blue-book or government report... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In Through the Magic DoorSACD
wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart
, Boswell
, Walter Scott
, Thomas Babington Macaulay
, Carlyle
, Melville |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Agnes Maule Machar | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Gore | In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. qtd. in Farrell, John P. “Toward a New History of Fiction: The Wolff Collection and the Example of Mrs. Gore”. The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, Vol. 37 , 1986, pp. 28-37. 36 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | In addition to wading into the controversies of Churchmen, FPC
also took Thomas Carlyle
to task here for narrow social sympathies and racism. Critic Janet L. Larson
presents a detailed analysis of her text's indirect... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
attended (with Robert Browning
) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle
on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the... |
Leisure and Society | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning
, Ruskin
, Tennyson
, Jane
and Thomas Carlyle
, Francis Galton
, Percy Lubbock
, and John Tyndall |
Literary responses | Charlotte Maria Tucker | The Athenæum proclaimed, a more entertaining and salutary story for merry, scatter-brained, careless children has rarely been put on paper. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1843 (1863): 261 |
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