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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Ellen Johnston | EJ
wrote a petition to Prime Minister Disraeli
that resulted in a grant of £50 from the Royal Bounty. |
| Reception | Janet Hamilton | In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli
on behalf of JH
resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification... |
| Textual Features | Jan Morris | Compared with its predecessor, said Johns
, this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 134 |
| Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
| Textual Production | Angela Thirkell | In her Miss Bunting, 1945, AT
resuscitates the controversial governess character from Marling Hall, to tutor Anne Fielding, the delicate, imaginatively brilliant daughter of titled parents who live in the Old Town of... |
| Textual Production | Annie Besant | She had, she wrote, resolved that my first public lecture should be on behalf of my own sex. This motivated her choice of theme. qtd. in Wallraven, Miriam. “’A Mere Instrument’ or ’Proud as Lucifer’? Self-Presentations in the Occult Autobiographies by Emma Hardinge Britten (1900) and Annie Besant (1893)”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 3, Dec. 2008, pp. 390-11. 400 |
| Textual Production | Violet Fane | She took her pseudonym from Benjamin Disraeli
's Vivian Grey, as she explains herself in her essay Are Remarkable People Remarkable-Looking? (An Extravaganza) She there writes that Lord Beaconsfield had spoken of me as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This book had a star-studded cast: sundry fashionable ladies, and notables like Byron
, Shelley
, Landor
, Disraeli
, the Duke of Wellington
, Lord John Russell
, Palmerston
, and Sir Robert Peel
. qtd. in Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Queen Victoria | This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she relates significant moments in her life to what she was reading at the time. She says that her reading, directed at first by chance and the choices of others, later moved towards what... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Eliot | On 11 February 1848 GE
discusses in a letter to John Sibree
her views on Hannah More
(once admired, now detested as exemplifying the bluestocking woman on display as a kind of freak), Benjamin Disraeli |
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