Butler, Arthur Stanley George. Portrait of Josephine Butler. Faber and Faber, 1954.
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Jane Jordan
Standard Name: Jordan, Jane
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Health | Josephine Butler | In 1857 the Butler family decided to move house. This decision was partly based on the advice of JB
's doctor, who suggested that Oxford's damp climate was detrimental to her health. |
| Health | Josephine Butler | According to biographer Jane Jordan
, she sporadically lost her senses of sight and hearing, and suffered from palpitations. Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 172 |
| Leisure and Society | Ouida | William Tinsley
, publisher of Ouida
's first novel, Held in Bondage, recalls her having said one evening, gentlemen, suppose my mother and myself are out of the room. Seat yourselves; smoke and drink... |
| Literary responses | Josephine Butler | Jordan
writes that this pamphlet demonstrates JB
's formidable powers as a researcher and her skills as a political polemicist. Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 134 |
| Literary responses | Josephine Butler | Catharine of Siena was well received. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was praised by Gladstone. Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998. 190: 69 Stuart, James, 1843 - 1913 et al. “Preface and Editorial Materials”. Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical Memoir, edited by George W. Johnson and Lucy A. Johnson, J. W. Arrowsmith, 1928, p. v - vii; various pages. 122 Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001. 182-3 |
| names | Ouida |
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| Publishing | Ouida | Ouida was an indefatigable writer of letters to The Times, and the same paper occasionally printed her poetry. In September 1882 appeared a piece of imperialist blank verse which portrays Great England as an... |
| Residence | Ouida | Ouida
and her maid were then reputedly placed in a dogcart and sent eighteen miles in the middle of the night from Sant'Alessio to Viareggio, where Ouida collapsed in the Hotel de Russie
... |
| Textual Features | Josephine Butler | JB
addresses mothers, and . . . all women who have the heart of a mother within them. qtd. in Butler, Josephine. “A Letter to the Mothers of England”. The Campaigners: Women and Sexuality, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts and Tamae Mizuta, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994. 3 |
| Textual Features | Ouida | Like that of her first novel, the plot of Strathmore revolves around what critic Jane Jordan
calls military life and comradely maleness. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105. 87 |
| Textual Production | Josephine Butler | It was intended to provide information about progress on an international scale about the campaign for women's education. Biographer Jane Jordan
notes that Elizabeth Wolstenholme
and Jessie Boucherett
backed Josephine with articles for the first... |
| Violence | Ouida | Ouida
wrote to her friend W. S. Blunt
expressing fear for her life; biographer Jane Jordan
thinks this fear related to problems with her tenancy. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 75-105. 86 |
| Wealth and Poverty | Ouida | Neighbours thought Ouida
's behaviour in this regard strange; but critic Jane Jordan
suggests that the unorthodox gap between death and burial was most likely due to her inability to pay for a proper funeral... |
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Texts
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, pp. 75-105.