qtd. in
Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Harriet Shaw Weaver | HSW
's family encouraged her in the regular pursuits of a young, middle-class Victorian woman. From her father she inherited an enthusiasm for poetry—she especially liked Shakespeare
, Coleridge
, and Whitman
—and she read... |
Education | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
was educated at home by governesses of several nationalities: Mademoiselle Titsie
, Marie Girard
, Rose Frohnstein
, and the English M. L. J., on several of whom she lavished that warmth of temperament... |
Education | Anne Lister | As an adult she was frequently engaged in serious, self-improving study. Her reading included ancient classics (Demosthenes
, Sophocles
, Juvenal
) and modern writings on conduct (Henrietta Maria Bowdler
's Essay on... |
Education | Sarah Grand | SG
continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black
writes that SG
particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. qtd. in Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge, 2000. 282 |
Education | Edna Lyall | Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve... |
Education | Una Marson | For UM
and her sisters, reading poetry was the chief delight of our childhood days. qtd. in Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998. 11 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Matilda Hays | Through her involvement with the Langham Place Group, MH
met and became a friend of Adelaide Procter
. In 1858 Procter dedicated the First Series of Legends and Lyrics to Hays, using a quotation from... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | They became close to a young friend met in Rome, Margaret Foley
, a sculptor from New England, who took up summer residence in the same spot. Visitors to their house in Rome included... |
Friends, Associates | Jane Welsh Carlyle | On their return from Edinburgh, Jane and Thomas Carlyle received an unexpected visit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who was on a literary tour and had been sent to them by John Stuart Mill
... |
Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Carlyle | He shared a wide and varied social circle with his wife
, as well as forging his own connections with Ralph Waldo Emerson
, John Ruskin
, Charles Kingsley
, and Alfred Tennyson
. |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Jex-Blake | When SJB
landed she was introduced to her host, Ralph Waldo Emerson
. She arrived only a couple months after the American Civil War had ended, and there was a climate of hostility towards Britain... |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Crowe | CC
had already become a friend of Sydney Smith
and his family. In Edinburgh she became friendly with members of various intellectual circles, including astronomer John Pringle Nichol
, chemist Samuel Brown
, artist David Scott |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
Friends, Associates | Eudora Welty | Although she lived most of her life out of the social swing, EW
maintained a web of close friendships by letters and visits. With Diarmuid Russell
, who became her literary agent in 1940, she... |