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Friends, Associates | Louisa May Alcott | LMA
was a friend of, among others, Frances Hodgson Burnett
, Ralph Waldo Emerson
, who helped her family manage their financial difficulties, and Henry David Thoreau
, who taught science to her and her... |
Textual Production | Louisa May Alcott | She had written the stories to amuse the daughter
of her friend Ralph Waldo Emerson
. The collection earned her just over thirty dollars. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239 |
Literary responses | Louisa May Alcott | A recent surge of interest has produced (as well as John Matteson
's and Eve LaPlante
's studies of LAM and her father and her mother) a monograph by Harriet Reisin
, 2009; a study... |
Textual Features | L. S. Bevington | The poems in Key-Notes are philosophical in nature, extensively discussing the origins of the universe, and of the Earth in particular, and Darwinian
evolution. Eijun Senaha
argues that they also reflect Emerson
's transcendentalism. Senaha, Eijun. “A Life of Louisa Sarah Bevington”. The Hokkaido University Annual Report on Cultural Sciences, Vol. 101 , pp. 131-49. 134 |
Intertextuality and Influence | L. S. Bevington | Bevington again prefaces her collection with an epigraph from Ralph Waldo Emerson
: this time from his essay Poetry and Imagination. She uses this quotation (When life is true to the poles of... |
Publishing | L. S. Bevington | Four of these poems were reprinted in Popular Science Monthly at the request of LSB
's friend Herbert Spencer
, a social scientist renowned for developing the concept of social Darwinism. The original publisher of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mona Caird | Here the sisters Hadria and Algitha Fullerton regard the marriage market with horror and other compliant women with contempt. Marriage is on the one hand primitive, a savage rite of sacrifice, and on the other... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
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 | 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
. |
Textual Production | Jane Hume Clapperton | It was dedicated To My Friend, George Arthur Gaskell
. Clapperton, Jane Hume. A Vision of the Future. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Limited. iv Clapperton, Jane Hume. A Vision of the Future. Swan Sonnenschein & Co Limited. v |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago. 117 |
Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | Anne, which has been read as personally revealing, depicts a successful middle-aged businesswoman and mother who is unable to persuade her children about the reality of her essential identity. Poignant in its sense of... |
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