Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Joseph Hume
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | AW
's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume
, was a translator of Dante
, and a friend of Charles Lamb
, William Hazlitt
, and William Godwin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Warton | Scholar David Fairer
has identified JW
's contribution, from its style, as Adventurer no. 87. This essay, later entitled Politeness a necessary auxiliary to knowledge and virtue, Reid, Hugh. “Jenny: The Fourth Warton”. Notes and Queries, Vol. continuous series 231 , No. 1, pp. 84-92. 87 |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published her first novel, In a Dark Wood, exploring connections between a present-day London family and the Emperor's court in seventeenth-century China. The phrase in a dark wood (which has appealed to... |
Textual Production | Linda Villari | |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus
, St Augustine |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Underhill | |
Residence | Frances Trollope | Although Frances had no quarrel with her step-mother, shortly after her father's remarriage she and her sister went to live with their brother at 27 Keppel Street, London, where he had obtained a clerkship... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Trollope | Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was... |
Occupation | Frances Trollope | Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante
's Infernal Regions. Hervieu
painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers
, created the figures. Hiram Powers
later became a celebrated sculptor... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 123-4 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 124 |
Education | Freya Stark | Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton. 252-3 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | This long poem in heroic couplets was inspired by some lines in Dante
's Purgatorio about a woman named Pia (pious) who was born in Siena and died as an offender of some... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Smith | One month before writing this poem Elizabeth Smith
met Mary Hunt
, with whom she was soon maintaining a scholarly correspondence. In the earliest letter which Bowdler prints (written on 7 July 1792), Smith touches... |
death | Elizabeth Siddal | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
commemorated ES
in a posthumous painting of her as Dante
's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix. Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books. 11 |
Textual Production | Arabella Shore | AS
published Dante
for Beginners. A Sketch of the "Divina Commedia" with Translations, Biographical and Critical Notices, and Illustrations. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |