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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 75 |
Literary Setting | Harriet Martineau | Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus
on the spine of... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | As a character, Toussaint is highly idealised. He is distinguished from other slaves by lineage (an African royal grandfather like that of Behn
's Oroonoko before him), Martineau, Harriet. The Hour and the Man. AMS Press. 1: 120 |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
had begun contributing to the Edinburgh Review in 1858 with a piece attacking Napoleon III
for reviving the slave trade. She continued these contributions until her illness forced her to end them in 1868.... |
politics | Mary Russell Mitford | In politics MRM
was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox
, the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ouida | Ouida
's father, Louis Ramé
—he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a... |
Travel | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Visiting Paris with her sister and father
, Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 54 |
politics | George Sand | GS
met with Louis Napoléon
to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage. 324-6 |
Travel | Queen Victoria | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria |
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