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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | AB
's biographer Anne Taylor
and other historians say she was in love with Bradlaugh
, and he at least to some degree returned her feelings. But he was married, though his wife, Susannah or... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | The custody decision made it unthinkable that AB
might secure a divorce in order to marry Charles Bradlaugh
(whose wife had now died). Mount, Ferdinand. “Get off your knees”. London Review of Books, Vol. 33 , No. 14, 30 June 2011, pp. 18-19. 18 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Annie Besant | It is hardly surprising in view of the other aspects of her reputation that AB
was assumed to be sexually involved with her successive, influential friends, Charles Bradlaugh
and Edward Aveling
. |
Friends, Associates | Annie Besant | AB
met Charles Bradlaugh
in 1874, the year after forming her friendships with Thomas Scott
and Charles Voysey
. Bradlaugh was a lawyer, a militant atheist, republican, and teetotaller, a huge man with a huge... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Friends, Associates | Edna Lyall | She became a good friend of Bradlaugh
himself and also of his daughter Hypatia
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna Lyall | Charles Bradlaugh
himself tutored EL
on the subject of secularism for this novel, which was at first to be called Erica. She had nearly finished writing it by the end of 1882, but during... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Annie Besant | AB
published anonymously in 1875, with Thomas Scott
, her first pamphlet on the topic of atheism. On the Nature and Existence of God owed much to the influence of her new friend Charles Bradlaugh |
Literary responses | Edna Lyall | The Morning Post gave the book a good review, Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 45 Corrick, Georgia. “’You will Blame Me . But . It Seemed to me Simply a Thing that Had to be Done’: Women’s Transgressions and Moral Choices in Edna Lyall’s Novels”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 14 , No. 3, Oct. 2007, pp. 476-95. 477 and n1 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Edna Lyall | She began writing it on a sunny August morning at Farnham, after reading in the Daily News of how Bradlaugh
, the well-known radical, in prison for refusing to take the parliamentary oath on... |
Occupation | Annie Besant | Under Charles Bradlaugh
's influence, AB
began lecturing and writing for the National Secular Society
. Taylor, Anne, 1932 -. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 71-3 |
politics | Annie Besant | The trial and temporary conviction of AB
and Charles Bradlaugh
in the summer of 1877 on obscenity charges for publishing the birth control pamphlet Fruits of Philosophy, as well as her public atheism, deprived... |
politics | Edith J. Simcox | Although EJS
was nominated to the Council of the newly revived International Working Men's Association
, along with Annie Besant
, Harriet Law
, and Charles Bradlaugh
, she subsequently withdrew. McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press, 1961. 42-3 |
politics | Edith J. Simcox | On 12 December 1877 EJS
remarked in her autobiography that a Council was appointed to which I was nominated, then Mrs Besant
, then Mrs Harriet Law
, and Mr Bradlaugh
in between. I had... |
politics | Edna Lyall | EL
met Charles Bradlaugh
after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. Payne, George A. "Edna Lyall:" an Appreciation. John Heywood. 28 |