Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 22, pp. 16-18. 16
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elaine Feinstein | Subjects of poems here include Dickens
, Thomas
and |
Cultural formation | James Anthony Froude | He gradually lost faith in High Church
tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle
. JAF
was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and... |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Fuller | Her travels in England introduced her to Mary Howitt
and Thomas Carlyle
, and she visited her old acquaintance Harriet Martineau
. In Paris she had significant meetings with George Sand
and the Polish poet... |
Textual Production | Margaret Fuller | Supporting herself while in Europe by working as a foreign correspondent (the first woman to do so), Marshall, Megan. “Let Them Be Sea-Captains”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 22, pp. 16-18. 16 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Gaskell | Her first epigraph, from Thomas Carlyle
's essay Biography, counters the view of novelists and their work as foolish. |
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. 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 , pp. 28-37. 36 |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
, in a study entitled Thomas Carlyle, set out to urge on a sceptical modern age the spirituality, originality, and energy, in a word the greatness, of her subject. Murray, David Leslie. “Carlyle’s Gospel”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 1302, p. 25. 25 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
Occupation | Richard Hengist Horne | Educated at Sandhurst
, RHH
started writing and editing in his thirties after a spell in the Mexican navy. His verse was praised by Thomas Carlyle
and Edgar Allan Poe
. He also adapted plays... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Brownell Jameson | The fragments consider the art criticism of Ruskin
and the philosophies of Carlyle
on the question of happiness. Others concern her Anglican faith, sexism in the profession of writing, Joan of Arc
, and her... |
Textual Features | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Her essay The Poet as Teacher calls for universal education on the grounds that it is ignorance that degrades, not poverty or toil. Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde,. Social Studies. Ward and Downey. 274 |
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