Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 126ff |
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 |
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. 2: 179 Rigby, Elizabeth. “Preface and Memoirs”. Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, edited by Charles Eastlake Smith, J. Murray, p. Various pages. 2: 179 |
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 | 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... |
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 |
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. 66 |
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... |
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. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 150 |
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... |
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. 26n38 |
Reception | Rhoda Broughton | As a result of the novel's satire of Oxford society, and in particular its alleged caricature of Pattison, RB
was never again admitted to dinner parties given by Benjamin Jowett
, Master of Balliol College |
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