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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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. 22 |
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. |
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 |
Textual Production | Emily Shirreff | |
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... |
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. 502 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. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
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