Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | Browne had made his Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents [sic] and commonly presumed truths (addressed not to ordinary, mis-informed people but to men of learning) almost an encyclopaedia of seventeenth-century misconceptions... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Roberts | The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR
's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers
(on the title-page) and Francis Bacon
(in the text)—of the... |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare
were actually written by Francis Bacon
). Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 278-9 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | CS
's father, William Thomas Smedley
, was a chartered accountant and company director, a philanthropist, a free-thinker, and a bibliophile. His magnificent Shakespeare
-Bacon
book collection, including more than a hundred volumes of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | AB
bore her younger son, Francis
, who became an influential scientist, writer, and thinker, as well as Lord Chancellor of England, and Viscount St Albans. The early-twentieth-century Baconian movement (a group of scholars and... |
Education | Sarah Austin | During the five years of their engagement, John Austin decided that Sarah was in need of a rigorous intellectual education in accordance with his religious, political, and philosophical bent of mind. Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton. 22 |
Education | Emily Shirreff | William Grey
, the girls' cousin and Maria's future husband, encouraged them to study philosophy, particularly the writings of Francis Bacon
and John Locke
. A cousin of their father, Sir William Hall Gage
... |
Education | Frances Reynolds | |
Education | Dora Greenwell | Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 199 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Dorling, William. Memoirs of Dora Greenwell. James Clarke. 73 |
Dedications | Margaret Legge | The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon
. Legge, Margaret. The Price of Stephen Bonyng. Alston Rivers. prelims |
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