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Emanuel Swedenborg
Standard Name: Swedenborg, Emanuel
Used Form: Emmanuel Swedenborg
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | William Blake | He belonged to the class of London shopkeepers and artisans known for hard work, sturdy financial effort, and independent opinions in religion and politics. William was a visionary from his childhood, someone who when he... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. S. Byatt | Together, says Byatt, the stories make up one exploration of Victorian anxieties about what it was to be human. |
Cultural formation | Lydia Maria Child | As to religion, LMC
had a natural leaning towards piety, but disliked most of the Christian sects of which she had experience. She found the Unitarians too cold, the Swedenborgians (to whom early in her... |
politics | Eliza Fenwick | Fifty years later EF
remembered being a unit of a circle where Faiths, Politics, Systems & Literature were constantly discussed—I, a mere listener among the Elite of those well qualified to be assailants & defenders.... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was devastated by her husband's death, but later she began to experience visions of his continuing presence (as she did of her son's presence after he too died). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:125 Glasier, Katharine Bruce. The Glen Book. London. 79 |
Author summary | Mary Catherine Hume | MCH
, who following her marriage published as Mary Hume-Rothery, wrote in a number of genres from the mid-nineteenth century onwards Her works include a biography, several collections of poems (many of which reflect her... |
Education | Mary Catherine Hume | Together they carefully studied the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
and she was deeply influenced by Tulk's philosophy. They also read and studied Shakespeare
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 101 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Catherine Hume | Tulk, her friend and mentor and a leading Swedenborg
ian, had died the previous year. The British Library
copy has a newspaper cutting bound in, and manuscript notes. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Catherine Hume | The other poems in the collection touch on the Crystal Palace (recently moved to its permanent home in Sydenham just south of London), Emanuel Swedenborg
, and MCH
's father, Joseph Hume
. Hume, Mary Catherine. Normiton. J. W. Parker and Son. prelims |
Textual Production | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
, probably either translated or revised an earlier translation of philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg
's Heaven and Hell, with the new title The Future Life. Melville, Joy. Mother of Oscar. John Murray. 69 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
was attracted to the ritual of the Anglican service, and was confirmed as an Episcopalian, although when in South Berwick her family attended the Congregationalist church. However, the most profound religious influence on her... |
Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Margery Lawrence | ML
accepted the spiritualist belief that there are levels of existence in the afterlife, or the Other Side, the lowest being the astral plane. One's plane on the Other Side, she maintained... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
Timeline
8 September 1836: The Transcendental Club (also known as the...
Writing climate item
8 September 1836
The Transcendental Club
(also known as the Hedge Club
and the Symposium
) was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; it brought together various thinkers who were at the forefront of Transcendentalism.
11 October 1845: A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg's...
Building item
11 October 1845
A translated edition of Emanuel Swedenborg
's work The Principia was published in London; this form of spiritualism soon became popular in elite intellectual circles.
Texts
Swedenborg, Emanuel. The Future Life. Translator Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde, Chapman, 1853.