Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Dorothy Bussy | Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre
. Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan
, Sir George Grove
, Edmund Gosse
and his wife Ellen
, John Morley
, and her uncle Matthew Arnold |
Friends, Associates | Katharine S. Macquoid | KSM
was a close friend of fellow-writer Annie Keary
. She also knew John Morley
, George Henry Lewes
and George Eliot
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Longman, 1988. 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, 1990. |
Literary responses | George Eliot | John Morley
, anonymously in the Saturday Review, noted that [o]ne of the puzzles, which runs pathetically through Felix Holt as through Romola and the The Mill on the Floss, is the evil... |
Literary responses | Sophia Jex-Blake | The response of John Morley
, editor of the Fortnightly, to the article was to express enthusiasm about joining the governing body of the New School of Medicine for Women
. Todd, Margaret. The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. Macmillan, 1918. 429 |
Literary responses | Matilda Betham-Edwards | John Morley
wrote to tell MBE
how much he had enjoyed the title piece, which he called very graceful, pretty, interesting, and pathetic. qtd. in Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 127 |
politics | Dora Marsden | Charges against the women were dropped owing to pressure from the University Chancellor, the Liberal writer and statesman Lord Morley
(now a Viscount), whose speech they had interrupted and who was said to be appalled... |
Publishing | Thomas Hardy | TH
's first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected in turn by Macmillan
(after reading by Alexander Macmillan
and John Morley
), by Chapman and Hall
(after reading by George Meredith |
Publishing | Frances Power Cobbe | In 1880 FPC
was casting about for a newspaper in which to publish. The Pall Mall Gazette, edited by John Morley
, proved too radical. The more conservative Standard, edited by William Heseltine Mudford |
Textual Features | Thomas Hardy | As its title suggests, this unpublished novel is a story of cross-class love. John Morley
noted its queer cleverness and hard sarcasm . . . cynical description. qtd. in Gittings, Robert. Young Thomas Hardy. Penguin, 1978. 154 |