Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
came from a long line of activists and rebels. Her paternal grandfather had been kidnapped by a pressgang to serve in the Navy, and later was involved in the savagely-put-down demonstration at St Peter's... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | Their visitors at Nice included the Chaucerian Francis Child
, the American writer Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Farrar
, and the political activist Richard Cobden
. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead. 147-8 |
Friends, Associates | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Shaw | She advocates colonial expansion through imperial aid, arguing that Britain and her imperial territories should strengthen their military and financial connections with one another. At the same time, Britain should relinquish control of local administrative... |
politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
represents herself in her Autobiography as brokering the successful repeal of the Corn Laws which took place on 26 June 1846, by mediating between Robert Peel
and Richard Cobden
. Histories of the repeal... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Bird | Biographer Anna M. Stoddart
describes the content of this pamphlet as an allegorical trial in which the radicals Cobden
and Bright
stand accused of destroying the agricultural interest and with it the national prosperity of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Cook | Stock patriotic attitudes are voiced in The Gallant English Tar, and The Banner of Union, verging on the jingoistic in We'll Stand to our Guns and Hurrah! for our Riflemen! Clearly no coherent... |
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