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...
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
,
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, was then ostracized in some...
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
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ethel M. Arnold
EA
’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith
’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James
’s...