Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Bagehot
William Rathbone Greg
Standard Name: Greg, William Rathbone
Used Form: W. R. Greg
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | EB
's sister Eliza married the future writer and political theorist Walter Bagehot
on 21 April 1858, and when her husband died early, on 24 March 1877, she inherited considerable wealth. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | While in Paris, she met Madame von Mohl
(wife of Orientalist Julius von Mohl
, Chair of Persian at the Collège de France
); William Rathbone Greg
; Fanny Kemble
; Elizabeth Barrett
and Robert Browning |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Joanna Baillie
(a well qualified judge) thought few people have so many friends as EF
, and that they all warmly esteemed as well as loving her. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 2: 699 |
| Instructor | Emilie Barrington | William Rathbone Greg
, a friend of EB
's father (and according to Martha Westwater
the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë
's Rochester), tutored all six Wilson sisters, paying attention in his teaching to the subject... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Taylor | In her pursuit of female independence, Taylor refutes Milton
's assertion in Paradise Lost (He for God only, and she for God in him), Taylor, Mary. The First Duty of Women. Emily Faithfull, 1870. 177 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The first piece was signed with her three initials, the second with her full name. Picking up on W. R. Greg
's Why are Women Redundant?, the second piece contended that only providing fair... |
| Reception | Elizabeth Gaskell | In December 1848, the eighty-year-old Maria Edgeworth
, who was having Mary Barton read to her, speculated that it might be by Harriet Martineau
, but by January she knew of Gaskell's authorship. By that... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Rigby | The essay begins with a quotation from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
and goes on to review several publications on the subject, including the Journal of the Women's Education Union (co-edited by Emily Shirreff
). ER |
Timeline
July 1850: The Westminster Review published W. R. Greg's...
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July 1850
The Westminster Review published W. R. Greg
's Prostitution; the article argued for state control of prostitution, as practised on the Continent.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
108
Greg, William Rathbone. “Prostitution”. Westminster Review, Vol.
53
, July 1850, pp. 448-06. 448-506
January 1859: W. R. Greg's essay "False Morality of Lady...
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January 1859
W. R. Greg
's essay "False Morality of Lady Novelists" was published in the National Review in London.
Greg, William Rathbone. “False Morality of Lady Novelists”. National Review, Vol.
8
, Jan. 1859, pp. 144-67. 144-67
April 1862: W. R. Greg's foray into the Woman Question,...
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April 1862
W. R. Greg
's foray into the Woman Question, called Why are Women Redundant?, appeared in the National Review.
Greg, William Rathbone. “Why Are Women Redundant?”. National Review, Vol.
14
, Apr. 1862, pp. 434-60. 434-60
24 April 1869: Leslie Stephen (later Virginia Woolf's father)...
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24 April 1869
Leslie Stephen
(later Virginia Woolf
's father) published in the Saturday Review an unsigned response to W. R. Greg
, entitled The Redundancy of Women.
Saturday Review. Chawton.
(1869): 544-6
Annan, Noel. Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984.
295
Texts
Greg, William Rathbone. “False Morality of Lady Novelists”. National Review, Vol.
8
, pp. 144-67. Greg, William Rathbone. “Mary Barton”. Edinburgh Review, Vol.
89
, pp. 402-35. Greg, William Rathbone. “Prostitution”. Westminster Review, Vol.
53
, pp. 448-06. Greg, William Rathbone. “Why Are Women Redundant?”. National Review, Vol.
14
, pp. 434-60.