Benjamin Jowett

In 1860 FN began her correspondence with Benjamin Jowett , who was introduced to her by Arthur Hugh Clough . They finally met in 1862, and remained dear friends, confidants, and companions in social reform...

From her youth FS was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott , a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In...

In a letter dated 15 January of that year, she described meeting Benjamin Jowett , whom she called very agreeable indeed, and very amiable.

EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater , Max Müller (whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett , Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and...

The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett ,, was then ostracized in some...

During this time, her participation in Oxford intellectual circles brought her into close contact with prominent thinkers of her day, including Benjamin Jowett , Master of Balliol. A very dear friend was Thomas Hill Green

After private tutoring, he then entered Balliol College, Oxford , under its legendry Master Benjamin Jowett , in January 1856. He flourished intellectually at Balliol, though largely outside the academic framework. He left Oxford in...

WP entered King's School, Canterbury , as a day student. Starting in 1858, he studied at Queen's College, Oxford , where he was tutored in Greek by Benjamin Jowett .

GMH attended Highgate School as a boarder, winning a poetry prize, but was in constant trouble over various acts of rebellion against authority. The headmaster several times threatened to expel him. He gained, however, two...

Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship , she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater , Ruskin , Benjamin Jowett , Mark Pattison , and Goldwin Smith .

MAW planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her...

Benjamin Jowett wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker . Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman . The book was reviewed widely—at times...

MAW 's friend Benjamin Jowett praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot .Walter Pater also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. Sales were good, but there were some hostile reviews...

Some time during the Balliol scandal, Benjamin Jowett gave WP a stern warning, and may have advised him not to apply for university positions. Soon afterwards he was passed over for a university Proctorship. During...

She went on publishing there occasionally for sixteen years: stories, sonnets, a long narrative poem, translation, and further essays on such topics as Plato and Benjamin Jowett .