Harriet Grote

In 1854 she met Charles Kingsley at a dinner given by Richard Monckton Milnes . Henry Layard, the traveller and archaeologist, also became a friend. Harriet Grote was another new and close friend, and...

The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville , geologist Sir Charles Lyell , and Sir William Grove , inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among...

Also among ABJ 's friends at this time were Jane Carlyle , Sarah Austin , Harriet Grote , and Harriet Martineau .

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

The couple were also good friends with Thomas and Jane Carlyle . SA helped the Carlyles with their house-hunting in London, and introduced Thomas Carlyle to John Stuart Mill . Other friends included...

Her friends and acquaintances included (besides Caroline Norton , a particularly close friend) politicians Lord Lansdowne and Lord Monteagle ; writers William Thackeray , Charles Dickens , Emily Eden , Elliot Warburton , Alfred Tennyson

At HT 's request Mill ended his friendships with Sarah Austin and Harriet Grote . He rekindled these acquaintances after her death.

ES 's circle of friends included Sir William Grove (inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville , lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley , astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy , Sir John Herschel

While ER was writing Fellowship she was also collaborating with Harriet Grote on an article calling for reforms to the British Museum . Their article appeared anonymously in the January 1868 Quarterly Review.

ER published Mrs. Grote , A Sketch, a tribute to her former collaborator and friend.

These collections supply parts of HM 's correspondence with Matthew Arnold , Charlotte Brontë , Jane Welsh Carlyle , John Chapman , Maria Weston Chapman , Anne Jemima Clough , Samuel Courtauld , Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mary Aitken Carlyle and John Forster aided in the campaign. The twenty-two names in support of her application included Alfred Tennyson , Thomas Carlyle , John Ruskin , and Thomas Hardy . Harriet and George Grote were also involved.