Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 4
William Johnson Fox
Standard Name: Fox, William Johnson
Used Form: W. J. Fox
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Sarah Flower Adams | In 1894, SFA
's poem A Summer Recollection was included in Moncure D. Conway
's Centenary History of the South Place Society based on Four Discourses given in the Chapel in May and June, 1893... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Flower Adams | |
| Textual Production | Robert Browning | Although reviews of Pauline were mixed, not a single copy was sold when he first released it. RB
received some pretty fierce criticism from John Stuart Mill
in an annotated review copy that he had... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Flower Adams | SFA
contributed lyrics for fourteen pieces to Hymns and Anthems, compiled by W. J. Fox
; this work includes the first printing of her most famous hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 6 |
| Textual Features | Sarah Flower Adams | This collection also includes the popular He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower, which was later sung at the funerals of both Sarah and her sister Eliza
. The hymns were written for use in... |
| Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | One of two later hymns included by W. J. Fox
in Hymns and Anthems (1841, often reprinted) opens with an assertion of human equality in the eyes of God: 'Tis man alone who difference sees... |
| Residence | Sarah Flower Adams | |
| Publishing | Sarah Flower Adams | This was her longest work. An edition in 1893 was prefaced with a memoir by W. J. Fox
's daughter Eliza Bridell Fox
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Mineka, Francis Edward. The Dissidence of Dissent: The Monthly Repository, 1806-38. University of North Carolina Press. 331 |
| Occupation | Robert Browning | RB
began his literary career as a poet inauspiciously with Pauline (1833), but with Paracelsus (1835) began to achieve some critical success. He entered literary society under the patronage of W. J. Fox
, and... |
| Literary responses | Sarah Flower Adams | Fox
describes the play in Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes as one of the purest and loveliest specimens ever yet produced of the dramatic poem. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 6 |
| Literary responses | Sarah Flower Adams | In his Lectures, W. J. Fox
compared her to Barrett Browning, praising SFA
as the more politically sensitive Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. |
| Leisure and Society | Sarah Flower Adams | |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | From 1822 onwards, HM
contributed essays, reviews, and poetry occasionally, and at first gratis, to the Unitarian The Monthly Repository. When it came under the editorship of W. J. Fox
(between 1827 and 1831)... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Flower Adams | These contributions appeared under the pseudonym S. Y., which Eliza Bridell Fox
claims indicated her pet name Sally to her personal friends. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 5 |
| Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | Guests at the Regent's Park home included her mother's second cousin Harriet Martineau
, Her mother's grandmother and Martineau's grandmother were sisters. |
Timeline
3 August 1832: In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry...
National or international item
3 August 1832
In the wake of the first Reform Bill, Henry Hunt
presented Parliament with a petition for female enfranchisement on behalf of Miss Mary Smith
of Stanmore, Yorkshire.
Texts
Fox, William Johnson, and Sarah Flower Adams. Hymns and Anthems. Charles Fox, 1841.
Fox, William Johnson, and Sarah Flower Adams. Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes. C. Fox, 1849.