Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | CN
was a friend of the two poets who shared the name Michael Field
(who also came from Birmingham) and of the medical doctor Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
(who presumably did not hold against her the... |
Friends, Associates | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) established formative friendships with Cara Bray
, her husband Charles
, and her sister, Sara Hennell
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 34-5, 43 |
politics | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) sided with Robert Owen
, John Bright
, and their mutual friend Charles Bray
, chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League
, in opposing the Corn Laws. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 72 |
Employer | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) began working as an assistant on the Coventry Herald, owned by her friend Charles Bray
; her duties included reviewing and writing articles on a wide range of subjects. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton. 87-8 |
Publishing | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) published a number of anonymous articles in the Coventry Herald, at this time owned by her friend Charles Bray
. Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 61 |
Textual Production | George Eliot | As she began to form intellectual friendships, her letters became a record of her critical and literary mind. Biographer Rosemary Ashton
traces her fictional side to a letter she addressed to Charles Bray
in October... |
Residence | Jane Hume Clapperton | She
spent almost her whole life in Edinburgh, though she apparently lived for some time in the West Midlands near Coventry, where she moved in the circle of Charles Bray
(social reformer and... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her interest in social reform brought her into friendship with Charles Bray
of Coventry, and her involvement with the feminist movement led to personal friendships with many of its leaders. She became, for instance, one... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Hume Clapperton | In her youth she had been part of a circle that included Charles Bray
and George Eliot
. Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She later suppressed and then downplayed the extent of her acting experience, but she retained some friendships from this era, including actress Florence Haydon
and managers William Creswick
and Henry Nye Chart
(to whom she... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | While appearing on stage MEB
must have found it a challenge to protect herself from unwanted sexual attentions. She attracted the attention, apparently without meeting disapproval from her mother, of newspaper proprietor Charles Bray
(who... |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
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