Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | In 1834 HM
published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | James Martineau
published a scathing attack on the book in the Prospective Review under the title Mesmeric Atheism. He poured scorn on the authors for believing that one can legitimately reach the doctrines of... |
Occupation | Lucy Toulmin Smith | Manchester College (now Harris Manchester College
) had a long and distinguished history as a Dissenting institution (including spells at York and London) before it moved to Oxford in 1889 and into new buildings... |
Anthologization | Anne Steele | Reprints and anthologies since this edition have maintained AS
's place in the American hymn tradition; the biographical material accompanying them has spread the impression of her as an exaggeratedly pious ideal. Editions include Hymns... |
Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian
. In 1831 James Martineau
became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
Leisure and Society | Anna Swanwick | One of the activities she pursued while others slept was knitting: she knitted a scarf for James Martineau
which he called a genuine Kunst-work, or work of art. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 92 |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | Meanwhile her former pastor James Martineau
had written to praise her poetry and to suggest that she should translate into English a young and little-known German poet, Ferdinand Freiligrath
, a Prussian political exile in... |
Dedications | Anna Swanwick | She dedicated it to James Martineau
in honour of their friendship of sixty years. Swanwick, Anna. Poets the Interpreters of their Age. George Bell. prelims |
Instructor | Anna Swanwick | AS
began attending lectures given by James Martineau
in Liverpool on Mental and Moral Philosophy. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 23 |
Occupation | Mary Augusta Ward | In the wake of Robert Elsmere's success, MAW
sought to prove the feasibility of the New Brotherhood which she had described in her novel through the foundation of a similar philanthropic organisation. As she... |
Anthologization | Anna Letitia Waring | Many of ALW
's hymns appeared in popular hymnbooks, which was extremely beneficial to her reputation. These books include the Leeds Hymn Book in 1853, the American Unitarian Hymn Book for Church and Home in... |
Literary responses | Anna Letitia Waring | James Martineau
wrote to Waring on 4 April 1873, seeking permission to publish her works in his hymnbook: he said he was anxious to enrich it with some pieces . . . which have long... |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | JW
was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry... |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
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