Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
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politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's upbringing led her at an early age to pledge to a friend to the improving of the state of the world. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 16 |
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 Schreiner’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland</span>”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 197-19. 198 |
Publishing | Rose Allatini | It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus
Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me... |
Reception | Rose Allatini | At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed... |
Reception | Isabella Ormston Ford | When it was published as a volume, a reviewer for the Saturday Review called it a clever and careful piece of work by an author new to fiction, “19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers. 1890 (27 December 1890): 3 |
Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
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