George Linnaeus Banks

Standard Name: Banks, George Linnaeus
Used Form: Mr Banks
Used Form: G. Linnaeus Banks

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Banks
Isabella Varley married George Linnaeus Banks at the Collegiate Church, Manchester.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Family and Intimate relationships Isabella Banks
IB 's husband, the journalist and orator George Linnaeus Banks , died of cancer, after years of illness and suffering.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
77
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Literary responses Isabella Banks
The Athenæum's review was mixed: they approved of some of Mr Banks 's patriotic pieces but were not impressed with IB 's contributions. They complained that Mrs Banks sings piningly of flowers, birds, leaves...
Publishing Isabella Banks
Like many of IB 's novels, More than Coronets was serialised before being published in volume form. The serial ran in the Girl's Own Journal, a periodical with which, according to biographer Edward Burney,...
Residence Isabella Banks
When IB 's husband took up the position of editor of the Harrogate Advertiser, she had to leave her beloved Manchester for Harrogate in Yorkshire.
Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969.
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Textual Production Isabella Banks
IB and her husband, George Linnaeus Banks , together published Daisies in the Grass: A Collection of Songs and Poems.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

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Texts

Banks, Isabella, and George Linnaeus Banks. Daisies in the Grass. R. Hardwicke, 1865.