Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, p. xi - xxx.
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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Education | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were active in the founding of Queen's College
in May 1848. There and at Bedford College
, JW
attended lectures by F. D. Maurice
and Francis Newman
. James Martineau
was also an influence. Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, p. xi - xxx. xv-xvi Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
Health | Harriet Martineau | She had a difficult journey home. Her brother James
accompanied her, and several friends—Julia Smith
(also an abolitionist and the aunt of Florence Nightingale
), who had been her travelling companion along with her... |