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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Brontë | |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | By this point in her life she was corresponding regularly with Frank Newman
(younger brother of Cardinal Newman
and of Harriett Mozley
, who was an agnostic for most of his life). James Martineau
... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | It was recommended to James Martineau
by Francis W. Newman
, brother of the famous tractarian
, as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit. Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press. 81 |
politics | Emily Davies | ED
's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning
, George Grote
, Thomas Huxley
,... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | James Martineau
, however, writing in the Westminster Review, praised the work of the lady-translator but decried her decision to translate an atheist, and one of quite secondary philosophical repute. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 125 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Gaskell | The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG
's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to... |
Occupation | Fanny Kingsley | FK
took an active position as the wife of a Rector at Eversley. When the couple arrived, the seventeenth-century rectory was in disrepair, and flooded in heavy rain. Brenda Colloms notes that, nevertheless, there... |
Residence | Fanny Kingsley | |
Travel | Harriet Martineau | While visiting her brother James
in Dublin, HM
became aware of the Irish problem; she later developed her thoughts on this question in texts such as The History of England During the Thirty... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM
herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Martineau | Harriet was closest to her younger brother James
, whose arrival she remembered with great clarity though she was less than three years old at the time. These two were frequently bullied by older siblings.... |
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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Martineau | After her brother James
's hostile review of Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and DevelopmentHM
broke off all communication with him. She does not refer to this directly in her Autobiography. Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235. xxx |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | Just at the point when she become a published author, HM
's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 1: 108 |