Her pamphlet was an attack on a recent series of pieces by Henry Morley
in Household Words on the dangers of unfenced machinery, and the unworkability of the related factory acts legislation. HM
also attacked...
Literary responses
Emma Caroline Wood
Not all responses to this novel were negative. Professor Henry Morley
of University College, London
, wrote an unsolicited letter which was printed and circulated to defend Sorrow on the Sea from the prevailing charges...
Literary responses
Anna Swanwick
Again letters of appreciation poured in, though several people confessedly wrote without, or before, studying the text at all carefully. Robert Browning
wrote, Yours has been a wonderful undertaking.
qtd. in
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903.
Many critics describe this as a travel book: the first one by a Romantic writer to deal with the exotic North. Critic Gary Kelly
, however, says that it purports
Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan, 1992.
177
to be a travel...
Timeline
1851: Johann and Bertha Ronge established at Hampstead...
Building item
1851
Johann
and Bertha Ronge
established at Hampstead the first kindergarten in England, a school designed to foster physical and mental development in young children.
Storey, Graham et al., editors. The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Seven 1853-1855. Vol. 7, Clarendon Press, 1993.
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Texts
Defoe, Daniel. The Earlier Life and Chief Earlier Works of Daniel Defoe. Editor Morley, Henry, 1822 - 1894, George Routledge, 1889.