The Stopes family had a diverse group of friends and acquaintances. Norman Maccoll
, then the editor of the Athenæum, was a frequent lunch guest. Other guests included the noted Shakespearean scholar Frederick James Furnivall
Benzie, William. Dr. F. J. Furnivall: Victorian Scholar Adventurer. Pilgrim Books, 1983.
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Occupation
Emily Hickey
After having met Frederick James Furnivall
while reading a paper at a meeting of the New Shakespeare Society
, EH
joined forces with him to found the Browning Society
.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
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Reception
Robert Browning
The Robert Browning Society
was founded in 1881 by Frederick James Furnivall
, who enlisted Emily Hickey
in the undertaking. Browning was still not a profitable poet, making at this date only about £100 a...
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Texts
Furnivall, Frederick James. A Bibliography of Robert Browning from 1833 to 1881. Burt Franklin, 1968.