Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton.
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Robert Owen
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Standard Name: Owen, Robert,, 1771 - 1858
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | Among her subjects are Lady Byron
(an occasion for HM
to deplore Byron
's conduct and influence), Mary Berry
, Mary Russell Mitford
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Marcet
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Somerville |
| 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
... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. 5-7 Herstein, Sheila R. A Mid-Victorian Feminist: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon. Yale University Press. 13 The progressive school was a non-charity educational enterprise along Owenite lines initially funded by a committee... |
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