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Family and Intimate relationships | Olive Schreiner | OS
met Karl Pearson
(later a noted academic and two years younger than herself) at the Men and Women's Club
, which he founded. They became very close friends, attempting to treat each other as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amy Levy | In this, says biographer Christine Pullen, AL
was switching her emotional dependence from Karl Pearson
(who, she felt, had betrayed their friendship) to Lee, Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press, 2010. 98 |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx
, barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson
, and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter
. Others she met in... |
Friends, Associates | Amy Levy | Others among her friends were Ellen Wordsworth Crofts
, who later became the mother of the poet Frances Cornford
, and Karl Pearson
, mathematician, eugenicist, and founder of the Men and Women's Club
. Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press, 2010. 115, 98 |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
met Olive Schreiner
either through the Fellowship of the New Life
or the Men and Women's Club
, where both were associates. Schreiner read but remained noncommittal about EFB
's unpublished paper, The Woman... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
's work influenced both the women's movement and advocates for social change generally. It became, according to Mohan Rao
, the principal text of eugenics in the nineteenth century. Rao, Mohan. From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic. Sage Publications, 2004. 93 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Ormston Ford | As her biographer June Hannam
notes, IOF
engages substantially with the work of Karl Pearson
for Women and Socialism, especially his idea that there has never been a Labour Question without a Woman's Question... |
Leisure and Society | Amy Levy | She confessed also that to live like Clementina Black
and her sister, doing their own housework, did not accord with my own Philistine, middle class notions of comfort. qtd. in Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000. 255 |
Leisure and Society | Henrietta Müller | Henrietta Müller
joined Karl Pearson
's Men and Women's Club
, a London circle of freethinkers which discussed topics including prostitution, sexuality, marriage, birth control, and women's emancipation. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press, 1995. 12 |
politics | Olive Schreiner | OS
's feminist and socialist involvement in London included joining the Men and Women's Club
, an intellectual organisation that struggled with issues of moral change. The club stressed the intellectual equality of men and... |
politics | Emma Frances Brooke | During this time EFB
also became an associate of Karl Pearson
's Men and Women's Club
, an intellectual group that formed in 1885 to debate the relations between the sexes. Although she never officially... |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
was an associate of Karl Pearson
's Men and Women's Club
, which was formed in London to debate the relations of the sexes. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002. 6, 78 |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | In London in the early 1880s, IOF
and her sisters became members of a precursor to Karl Pearson
's Men and Women's Club
(lauched in October 1885). Referred to simply as a men and women's... |
Author summary | Olive Schreiner | OS
was a political and social activist as well as a writer. Her biographer Liz Stanley says she was internationally probably the best-known feminist writer and theorist from the 1880s through to the 1930s. Stanley, Liz. “Encountering the Imperial and Colonial Past through Olive Schreiners Trooper Peter Halket of MashonalandWomens Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, 2000, pp. 197-19. 198 |
Textual Production | Henrietta Müller | Henrietta Müller
presented a critique of Karl Pearson
's The Woman's Question at the Men and Women's Club
, entitled The Other Side of the Question. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press, 1995. 10-12 |