Benjamin Jowett

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...

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...

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