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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 347 |
Cultural formation | Christina Rossetti | Edward Pusey
, Henry Manning
and other leaders of the Oxford Movement also preached at the church; Sara Coleridge
was another parishioner. CR
's religious faith become a cornerstone of her life, equalled only by... |
Cultural formation | Cecil Frances Alexander | In 1848 CFA
met British novelist Charlotte Yonge
and the leader of the Oxford Movement
, John Keble
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Dedications | Margaret Harkness | She dedicated this novel to the memory of Cardinal Manning
, mentioning her association with him during the dock strike of 1889. |
Dedications | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
's first volume of religious verse was The Prophecy of Westminster, and Other Poems. In Honour of Henry Edward, Cardinal Manning. British Library Catalogue. |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | While abroad FN
also developed an intense friendship with Mary Stanley
, daughter of the Bishop of Norwich, who was travelling with Henry Manning (later Cardinal Manning)
. (Stanley, at that time an Anglican, was... |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN
in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973. 176 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | Adelaide Procter
(a close friend of BRP
after her conversion, as were Sarah Atkinson
and Cardinal Manning
) died of tuberculosis on 2 February 1864, the year before BRP
's father also died. Parkes was... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl
and Turgenev
in France. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 369-70 |
Literary responses | Anne Manning | It called them spurious antiques Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
Literary responses | Harriet Hamilton King | Lauding it as a remarkable poem, the critic for the Saturday Review noted that the writer does not seem so much to compose it as to breathe it forth; it is the fruit of... |
Occupation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
resolved early on a writing career, and in 1888 became (through the influence of Cardinal Manning
, a family friend), a journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her earnings contributed, in a tradition... |
politics | Margaret Harkness | She was an active member of various socialist parties between 1887 and 1891, including the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
, though she later called socialism both foolish and wrong. Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, 1982, pp. 45 -66. 49 |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes |