Hughes, William Richard, Charles Lapworth, W. A. Tilden, and Robert Lewins. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890.
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William Richard Hughes
Standard Name: Hughes, William Richard
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Constance Naden | At least two of her instructors at Mason College
later counted themselves her friends: William R. Hughes
and geologist and educationalist Charles Lapworth
. The latter was a distinguished scholar (the first to posit the... |
| Health | Constance Naden | Some scholars blame the fever caught in India for her illness, but William R. Hughes
does not mention it; others posit cancer or ovarian cysts. Whatever was wrong with her, she never recovered from it. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 558 Thain, Marion. “‘Scientific Wooing’: Constance Naden’s Marriage of Science and Poetry”. Victorian Poetry, pp. 151 - 69. 152 |
| Literary responses | Constance Naden | William R. Hughes
provided for the Midland Naturalist a review of this book which CN
called kind. Hughes, William Richard, Charles Lapworth, W. A. Tilden, and Robert Lewins. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890. 38-9 |
| Literary responses | Constance Naden | Four months after CN
died a series of three articles about her appeared in the Midland Naturalist, which then formed the basis of the little volume of memoirs produced by William R. Hughes
with... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Constance Naden | She chose an epigraph from Schiller
in German, about the dance of the hours. The cover was blue, printed in gold with a trailing spray of leaves and flowers of campanula hederacea, designed by herself... |
| politics | Constance Naden | She was a Liberal (who canvassed for the Gladstone
supporter George Granville Leveson-Gower
when he stood—unsuccessfully—for East Marylebone in 1889), a supporter of Irish Home Rule, a member of the Somerville Club
for women, and... |
| Publishing | Constance Naden | William R. Hughes
counted twenty-one shorter publications by CN
from 1881 onwards, mostly in journals under the signatures of Constance Arden, C.N., or unusually Constance C.W. Naden. They begin with Hylo-Zoism v... |
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