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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Matilda Hays | MH
wore unconventional clothes, a half cross-dressing likely inspired by George Sand
, which attracted frequent comment. She dressed like a man from the waist up, wearing tight, lapeled bodices, handsome waistcoats, and elegant bow... |
Dedications | Matilda Hays | MH
published in New YorkFadette, A Domestic Story from the French, her translation of George Sand
's novel, with a dedication to Charlotte Cushman
, True Artist and Yet Truer Woman .... |
Education | Edith J. Simcox | Soundly educated, EJS
acquired a good knowledge of French and German at school, where she considered herself outrageously defiant and disobedient. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 6 |
Education | Matilda Hays | As is evident from her later translations of George Sand
, she was fluent in French. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Education | Jessie Fothergill | She acquired much knowledge through her voracious consumption of books: I loved books, and read all that I could get hold of, and have had many a rebuke for poring over those books instead of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Allatini | Scott believed that he and Allatini were continuing a relationship begun in an earlier life in which neither of us was English . . . Rose was an authoress and I a composer and had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Taylor | MT
's father, Joshua Taylor
, came from a wool-trading family based in the West Riding of Yorkshire; he often travelled to the Continent on business and was fluent in French and Italian. He... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's father, Thomas Arnold
, was the second son and namesake of the eminent Victorian headmaster Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold
was his elder brother. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | Markus also speculates that Jane is the inspiration for the unhappily married character of Alice Bryant in Jewsbury's novel The Half Sisters. Markus, Julia. Across An Untried Sea: Discovering Lives Hidden in the Shadow of Convention and Time. Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 141 |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
was also a friend, even before she settled in London, of Eliza Ashurst
(a translator of George Sand
), whose father was a Radical, the originator of the Penny Post, and a friend... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Kemble | The friends of her married life included the artist Leighton
, sculptor Hattie Hosmer
, authors Charles Hamilton Aïdé
, Henry Greville
, William Makepeace Thackeray
, and Robert
and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
. She... |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Lewis | SL
was a friend of Adelaide Ristori
(an Italian tragedy actress who married into the nobility and achieved an international reputation) and of novelists Alexandre Dumas the younger
, and George Sand
, among others... |
Friends, Associates | Susan Tweedsmuir | When ST
's parents and Leslie Stephen
tried to nurture a childhood friendship between Susan, Vanessa
(later Bell), and Virginia
(later Woolf), the relationship never took root. As an adult, however (having admired Woolf's early... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
visited George Sand
(whom she had long admired) at her home in Paris. Taplin, Gardner B. The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Yale University Press, 1957. 252 Forster, Margaret. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography. Grafton, 1990. 260-1 |