Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
William Johnson Fox
Standard Name: Fox, William Johnson
Used Form: W. J. Fox
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | HT
met John Stuart Mill
through her Unitarian
minister, William Fox
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Taylor | HT
's husband introduced her to the UnitarianMonthly Repository circle which included Harriet Martineau
, Eliza
and Sarah Flower
, and the Rev. William Fox
. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 103 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Stuart Mill | In 1830 JSM
met Harriet Taylor
, who was married at the time, through William Fox
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
| Employer | Harriet Martineau | HM
came to see the loss of her income, like the loss of her fiancé, as a bracing experience, indeed as one of the most fortunate occurrences of her life. She decided to pursue her... |
| 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... |
| 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)... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 | The location of several other SFA
poems owned by W. J. Fox
is unknown. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 4 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | |
| Residence | Sarah Flower Adams | |
| 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 |
| Anthologization | Sarah Flower Adams | Poems by SFA
on political and social subjects, originally written for the Anti-Corn Law League
, were printed in the fourth volume of W. J. Fox
's Lectures Addressed Chiefly to the Working Classes the... |
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.