Giuseppe Mazzini

The work was dedicated to Joseph Mazzini , the prophet, martyr, and hero . . . in undying gratitude and reverence. She had known the Italian patriot from her youth.

In 1879, while in Ireland for a family holiday, ELV read a book about Giuseppe Mazzini which instilled in her a general passion for revolutionary causes. Her ensuing frustration with the state...

The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the...

HHK was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. One source suggests that her family was in all likelihood pleased to accept almost any husband for...

DB 's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey (1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke , Gwen Raverat , Ka Cox ...

Harriet corresponded with Mazzini , Italian patriot and writer, from 1862, and they remained close until his death. The heroine in William Hale White 's novel Clara Hopgood (1896), who dies devoted to the fight...

On 16 August 1862 (the year after Italy achieved its independence, as a monarchy and not as the republic which the revolutionaries had envisaged), Harriet renewed her pledges of devotion to Mazzini and his political...

The Blinds' home in England was frequented in the manner of a salon by others whom their political convictions had rendered refugees. The young MB was deeply influenced by contact with such people as Giuseppe Mazzini

GJ was also a friend, even before she settled in London, of Eliza Ashurst (a translator of George Sand ), whose father was a Radical, the originator of the Penny Post, and a friend...

While visiting Italy, JWM stayed with Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in Rome, beginning...

As his fame grew, Thomas was increasingly invited to the homes of London's political and intellectual elite, while Jane moved in her own social circle, which included Charles Dickens , John Forster , Giuseppe Mazzini

HHK met Giuseppe Garibaldi on his visit to England; on a different occasion this year she met another Italian nationalist whom she had passionately admired for years, Giuseppe Mazzini .

Those aspects of the book which readers insisted on seeing separately as the Jewish element, as she herself called them, were the hardest for GE to write. She sought to naturalize the scholarly, Judaic...

This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.Mrs Browning

ELV 's many sources of inspiration for this novel were gathered over a long period of years. At the age of fifteen she came across a book about Giuseppe Mazzini which captured her imagination and...