Benjamin Jowett

More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

John Stuart Mill and Benjamin Jowett both read an early draft as part of Suggestions for Thought, 1860. Although impressed, both men advised Nightingale not to publish.

The letters span FN 's entire life and include examples of her correspondences with Edwin Chadwick , Benjamin Jowett , Harriet Martineau , and Mary Clarke Mohl .

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

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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

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