Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray, 1949.
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Education | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | They sometimes attended the local Westminster Infant School in Vincent Square, London, alongside ragged children. Burton, Hester. Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891. John Murray, 1949. 5-7 Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press, 1985. 13 The progressive school was a non-charity educational enterprise along Owenite lines initially funded by a committee... |
Education | Fredrika Bremer | After FB became a published author, in the early 1830s, she embarked on an ambitious programme of reading, drawing on books in several languages. Her English friend Frances Lewin
helped her in studying James Mill |
Friends, Associates | Flora Tristan | In Paris, FT
began to associate with socialists, including Charles Fourier
and Robert Owen
, and feminists, including Eugénie Niboyet
and Anna Wheeler
. Cross, Máire, and Tim Gray. The Feminism of Flora Tristan. Berg, 1992. 8 Grogan, Susan. Flora Tristan: Life Stories. Routledge, 1998. 223, 227-8 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | People she met at the Laurences' house included Thornton Leigh Hunt
(who, with his wife, lived at the Laurences'); Smith Williams
, reader for Smith and Elder
; Robert Owen
, socialist; Frank Stone
... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Wright | On her voyage back to Europe, FW
had as companion Robert Owen
's son, Robert Dale Owen
. During her stay in Europe, she made the acquaintance of Mary Shelley
(who became a friend and... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wheeler | AW
failed in her attempt to arrange a meeting between Charles Fourier
(whom she had met in Paris this year) and Robert Owen
. Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996. 350 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ellen Johnston | Her work garnered considerable response, including many poems of praise and compliment which were printed alongside her own in her later collection. These ranged from a verse proposal of marriage to a poetic tribute asserting... |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | James Martineau
published a scathing attack on the book in the Prospective Review under the title Mesmeric Atheism. He poured scorn on the authors for believing that one can legitimately reach the doctrines of... |
politics | Anna Wheeler | Once established in London by the mid 1820s, AW
moved among the socialist intelligentsia, choosing as her associates Jeremy Bentham
, whom she claimed to [adore] as a philosopher and [love] as a friend, qtd. in Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996. 350 |
politics | George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans (later GE
) sided with Robert Owen
, John Bright
, and their mutual friend Charles Bray
, chairman of the local Anti-Corn Law League
, in opposing the Corn Laws. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. 72 |
Reception | Anna Wheeler | This letter was reportedly designed to be read publicly by Owen
, after which he would give a counter-response. Owen, Robert, 1771 - 1858, and Robert Dale Owen, editors. The Crisis, and National Co-operative Trades’ Union and Equitable Labour Exchange Gazette. J. Eamonson; B. D. Cousins. II.24: 190 |
Residence | Frances Wright | FW
left Nashoba once more, this time for Robert Owen
's colony of New Harmony in Indiana. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press, 1984. 168 |
Textual Features | Marion Reid | A Plea combines utilitarian, natural rights, and Owen
ite socialist arguments. qtd. in McFadden, Margaret. Golden Cables of Sympathy. University of Kentucky Press, 1999. 110 |
Textual Features | Margaret Harkness | George, the protagonist, is born into the upper class but tries to become one of the people, working amongst the poor as a socialist. The novel is set in East End London against the London... |
Textual Production | Anna Wheeler | These letters are among the few identified examples of AW
's own prose. She addressed the first in the series To Robert Owen
, Esq. qtd. in Owen, Robert, 1771 - 1858, and Robert Dale Owen, editors. The Crisis, and National Co-operative Trades’ Union and Equitable Labour Exchange Gazette. J. Eamonson; B. D. Cousins. II.24: 190 |