Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918.
126ff
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Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | 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. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 126ff |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Skene | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In a letter dated 15 January of that year, she described meeting Benjamin Jowett
, whom she called very agreeable indeed, and very amiable. Rigby, Elizabeth. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake. Editor Smith, Charles Eastlake, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 179 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, 1895, p. Various pages. 2: 179 |
Friends, Associates | Ethel M. Arnold | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 November 1940): 5 |
Instructor | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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... |
Instructor | Walter Pater | 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
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 57 |
Instructor | Gerard Manley Hopkins | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | 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
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 66 |
Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | 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... |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's friend Benjamin Jowett
praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot
.Walter Pater
also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. qtd. in Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press, 1970. 150 |
Occupation | Walter Pater | |
Publishing | May Sinclair | 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
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 26n38 |
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