Olive Banks

Standard Name: Banks, Olive

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
death Jessie Boucherett
Feminist scholar Olive Banks notes that there is a lack of information on JB 's life and suggests that she remains one of the most elusive of the Langham Place circle.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Taylor
Her father, Thomas Hardy , was a surgeon and male midwife.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Olive Banks says he appears to have been a mean, domineering man.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
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politics Clementina Black
Several critics have linked CB 's efforts with the League to the match-girls' strike of July 1888 led by Annie Besant . Critic Olive Banks suggests that a speech by CB to the Fabian Society
politics Maria Grey
MG strongly endorsed the goal of women's suffrage and the campaign for wider career opportunities. Her friendship with Josephine Butler developed after Butler invited her to speak to the North of England Council for Promoting the Higher Education of Women
Reception Clementina Black
Critic Olive Banks notes how in CB 's novels evil is an aspect of her male, rather than female, characters, although her heroes, in contrast, are always men of compassion and sensitivity.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
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Reception Emily Shirreff
Victorian feminist scholar Olive Banks suggests that although ESbelieved firmly that girls should be freed from dilettantism in education and that their education should be no different from that of boys, her chief emphasis...
Textual Production Emily Shirreff
ES and her sister published a novel entitled Passion and Principle, designed to enforce their own beliefs about these qualities.
The Feminist Companion, the Dictionary of National Biography (both the old and new...

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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985, 2 vols.