Beatrice Harraden
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Standard Name: Harraden, Beatrice
Birth Name: Beatrice Harraden
Writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, BH
published seventeen novels, besides journalism and letters to the editor, short stories, a suffrage play and pamphlet, and children's books. Favourite topics with her, seemingly based in different ways on her personal experience, are female friendship, music and musicians, and illness.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward
, Lucas Malet
, Lucy Clifford
, Sarah Grand
, Violet Hunt |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Through the New Vagabonds Club
, KCT
may have met several other prominent authors of the day, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Grant Allen
, Pearl Craigie
(who went by the pseudonym John Oliver... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Glover | Though not known to the eminent residents of the nearby square, EG
enjoyed a cordial acquaintance with many of their cooks and butlers, based on a shared love of cats. She mentions some theatrical friends:... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | Beatrice Harraden
wrote in an obituary of Linton for The Bookman about her devoted daughter-by-adoption—Mrs. Beatrice Hertz-Hartley
, whom she loved with every fibre of her being, and on whom she had set her very... |
Friends, Associates | Catharine Amy Dawson Scott | Once settled in a larger house more suited to entertaining, CADS
renewed old friendships and made new ones with luminaries in London literary society, including Beatrice Harraden
, Arthur Waugh
, H. G. Wells
,... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | ES
later wrote of her particular gratitude to those of her male friends who without fuss understood, supported, and shared her commitment to suffragism: who worked to keep our movement free from the suggestion of... |
Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
liked to give a helping hand to young writers. She particularly favoured the novelist Beatrice Harraden
(more than forty years her junior, and just the kind of new woman whom Linton might have been... |
Literary responses | Eliza Lynn Linton | A younger writer, Beatrice Harraden
, sought to redeem ELL
from her antifeminist reputation in her article Mrs. Lynn Linton in The Bookman for August 1898. |
Occupation | Inez Bensusan | These plays, written by amateur and professional writers, were made available for performance at public events in support of women's suffrage. Bensusan encouraged writers to produce plays dealing with a range of women's issues such... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
volunteered alongside Beatrice Harraden
at the Endell Street Hospital for Soldiers
, a medical facility opened in May 1915 and directed by Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
and Dr Flora Murray
. “World War I Suffragette Military Hospital”. The Women’s Library Newsletter. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press, 1994. 223-4 |
Occupation | Constance Smedley | Since the Langham Place Group
had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club
came on the scene at a time... |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Woolf's attitude to this honour (which, however, was unusual in that she did not decline it) remained deprecating and satirical. She called it the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne TrautmannEditors , Hogarth Press, 1980. 3: 479 |
Reception | Rose Macaulay | In July 1912 the manuscript of this novel had received a first prize of £600 in a competition held by Hodder and Stoughton
. It was particularly highly praised by Beatrice Harraden
, who was... |
Textual Production | Flora Annie Steel | FAS
's papers are widely scattered. The University of Texas at Austin
holds an extensive collection of her correspondence with Beatrice Harraden
, with her agent, and with the Authors' Syndicate
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 156 |
Timeline
11 December 1906
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
gave a banquet at the Savoy Hotel in London to celebrate the release from Holloway Prison
of suffragists arrested on 23 October.
June 1908
By early November 1910
Katherine or Katharine Roberts
published anonymously with the Garden City Press
at Letchworth and London the semi-fictionalPages from the Diary of a Militant Suffragette.