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Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | JW
was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry... |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | Despite the occasional friction between them, GJ
felt that her friendship with Jane Carlyle
was a step towards a new reality for women. Writing to Carlyle in 1849, she expressed her dream of a future... |
Dedications | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
's relationship with the actress Charlotte Cushman
may have influenced her decision to make the heroine of this work an actress. She wanted to dedicate this novel to Jane Carlyle
and Elizabeth Paulet
... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Carlyle | In April 1866, Jane Carlyle
died during a coach ride in Hyde Park. TC
was healing a sprained ankle in Edinburgh and could not immediately return. Geraldine Jewsbury
was called on to identify the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | Jane Carlyle describes another occasion at Seaforth, this time in 1844, when GJ
, upset over an earlier dispute, entered her friend's bedroom at night and acted in such a way that it was a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Adelaide Procter | AP
's mother, born Anne Skepper
, was a clever and observant woman, a frequent and influential hostess to the London literary elite. Frances Kemble
considered her notable for her pungent epigrams and brilliant sallies... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Clementina Black | The marriage of CB
's mother, then Clara Patten
, to David Black in 1849 was made against her father's wishes. The marriage effectively ended Clara's participation in intellectual and artistic circles, which had included... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | Before her marriage, CG
's mother, Clara (Patten) Black
, daughter of the successful portrait-painter George Patten
, moved in artistic and intellectual circles and was a friend of Jane Welsh Carlyle
and Geraldine Jewsbury |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | Her relationship with Mantell met with disapproval from Jane Carlyle
, who may have been jealous. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 223 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Thomas Carlyle | In 1826 he married Jane Welsh
. They were introduced in 1821 by Edward Irving
, who was both her tutor and his friend. Despite her mother's disapproval, they began a courtship. Their marriage produced no children. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Brownell Jameson | Also among ABJ
's friends at this time were Jane Carlyle
, Sarah Austin
, Harriet Grote
, and Harriet Martineau
. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. 3 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
first met the Carlyles
, just under a year after she had introduced herself by letter to Thomas
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 43 |