Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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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... |
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. Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 282 |
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... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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, http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago, 1980. 117 |
Literary responses | Frances Hodgson Burnett | FHB
's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement. Gerzina, Gretchen. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Chatto and Windus, 2004. 109 |
Literary responses | Anna Swanwick | Again she received her fan letters. Max Müller
(a friend) and Oliver Wendell Holmes
both read this book with delight, and a son of Tennyson
reported that the Poet Laureate had left it open where... |
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