Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin.
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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. 145 |
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. 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 | 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 | 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. 183 |
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. 282 |
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