Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Eliza Bridell Fox
Standard Name: Fox, Eliza Bridell
Used Form: Eliza Fox
Used Form: Eliza Bridell-Fox
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Anna Mary Howitt | Back in England AMH
was taught drawing by F. S. Cary
at Sass's Art School
, which prepared pupils for the Academy Schools and, unusually for the date, offered its full facilities to women. Owing... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | Harriet Martineau
supposedly based the Ibbotson girls in Deerbrook, on the lives of Sarah
and Eliza
Flower. Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922. 19 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | According to Eliza Bridell Fox
, SFA
never recovered from the loss of her sister. Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922. 67 |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Gaskell | EG
was glad to escape the storm of controversy that her novel had raised in Manchester, and to be feted in London. She already knew Mary Howitt and Geraldine Jewsbury
(who lived in Manchester). Although... |
| Occupation | Sarah Flower Adams | In addition to writing hymns, SFA
attempted a stage career: she aimed to develop both musical and dramatic skills. Eliza Bridell Fox
notes that the aspiring performer possessed a rich contralto voice. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 4 |
| politics | Elizabeth Gaskell | On 1 January 1856, in a letter to Eliza Fox
, EG
agreed to sign the petition in favour of the Married Women's Property Act, but expressed reservations about its effectiveness. Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993. 311 |
| politics | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | At the meeting the female members of the first Married Women's Property Committee
confirmed the text of BLSB
's parliamentary petition and planned for a signature crusade and then for the presentation of the petition... |
| Publishing | Sarah Flower Adams | This was her longest work. An edition in 1893 was prefaced with a memoir by W. J. Fox
's daughter Eliza Bridell Fox
. British Library Catalogue. Mineka, Francis Edward. The Dissidence of Dissent: The Monthly Repository, 1806-38. University of North Carolina Press, 1944. 331 |
| Reception | Sarah Flower Adams | In addition to biographical sketches by Eliza Bridell Fox
and John Julian
, which are prefaces to editions of Vivia Perpetua (1893) and Nearer, My God, to Thee (1911), respectively, there is a published account... |
| Textual Production | Sarah Flower Adams | These contributions appeared under the pseudonym S. Y., which Eliza Bridell Fox
claims indicated her pet name Sally to her personal friends. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 5 |
Timeline
December 1855
Barbara Leigh Smith
, later Bodichon, founded the Married Women's Property Committee
(sometimes called the Women's Committee) to draw up a petition for a married women's property bill.
14 March 1856
A petitionfor Reform of the Married Women's Property Law, organized by the Married Women's Property Committee
and signed by many prominent women, was presented to both Houses of Parliament.
18 August 1882
The Married Women's Property Act gave women the right to all the property they earned or acquired before or during marriage.