Hensleigh Wedgwood

Standard Name: Wedgwood, Hensleigh

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Wedgwood
Her father, Hensleigh Wedgwood , was a well-known philologist and author of the Etymological Dictionary. He curtailed JW 's career as a novelist and insisted on editing her later works. Julia's parents were first cousins.
Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx.
xi
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
665
Friends, Associates Jane Welsh Carlyle
Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.
qtd. in
Skabarnicki, Anne M. “Two Faces of Eve: The Literary Personae of Harriet Martineau and Jane Welsh Carlyle”. The Carlyle Annual, Vol.
11
, 1990, pp. 15-30.
20
Friends, Associates Harriet Martineau
HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Intertextuality and Influence Julia Wedgwood
When she began working on her second novel, her father insisted on editing her drafts extensively, priding himself that he could play a role in her career similar to that of Maria Edgeworth 's father
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Gaskell
EG devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber, 1993.
278-9, 295
A sense of her...

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Wedgwood, Barbara, and Hensleigh Wedgwood. The Wedgwood Circle, 1730-1897: Four Generations of a Family and Their Friends. Studio Vista, 1980.