qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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Education | Sarah Grand | SG
continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black
writes that SG
particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 282 |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP
enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields
(who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. 145 |
Friends, Associates | Amelia B. Edwards | One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell
, John Greenleaf Whittier
, and Oliver Wendell Holmes
joined forces to get her invited... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Faithfull | EF
's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Joaquin Miller
, James Russell Lowell
, and Walt Whitman
. Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany, 1994. 183 |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She also knew Frances Power Cobbe
, Vernon Lee
, Florence Fenwick Miller
, and Mabel Robinson
(likely, too, her sister A. Mary F. Robinson
, who also wrote for the Athenæum at the same... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Russell Mitford | At the end of her life MRM
was visited by John Ruskin
and the US publisher James T. Fields
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | Their friends at this period of their lives included song-writer Alexander Anderson
, social reformers Patrick Geddes
and his wife
, and theologian Robert Flint
(who introduced them to Oliver Wendell Holmes
). They knew... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Two hundred people celebrated HBS
's seventy-first birthday, including Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
, Oliver Wendell Holmes
, and William Dean Howells
. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 393-4 |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Beecher Stowe | HBS
developed a friendship with Oliver Wendell Holmes
. She also gained notoriety by supporting a young writer named Anna Dickinson
who caused a sensation by writing a novel which defended interracial marriage. This led... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press, 1972. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago, 1980. 117 |
Literary responses | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | The Spectator review commented that in not a few of the sonnets . . . there are flights of imagination, to our minds, of which almost the greatest of English sonnet-writers might, and possibly would... |
Literary responses | Emily Jane Pfeiffer | Holmes
claimed that a rare poetic beauty belongs to these noble poems; they are full of the highest and noblest inspiration. qtd. in Pfeiffer, Emily Jane. “Introduction”. Sonnets and Songs (1880), edited by Cody Fife and Terence Allan Hoagwood, Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1998, pp. 5-13. 6 |
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