Giuseppe Mazzini

While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle (to some extent), Erasmus Darwin , and Mazzini found it promising. The scandal surrounding its content did work in the author's...

The Athenæum review of Italics began with a lengthy characterization of a stereotypical female politician, Miss Fanny, whom, however, it purports to distinguish from the actual FPC . This person is not, on the...

Many friends of GE including Edith J. Simcox , plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight , believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes for his tireless protection of GE

This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Not all recognitions brought pleasure. A reference work called Men of the Time...

Reviews were mixed, but the series was not an overall success, as is shown by its being abandoned for lack of support. The Quarterly Review panned the translators' efforts and labelled the series a smuggler's...

Jessie White (later JWM ) was still touring England, giving lectures to aid the cause of Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini .

In Florence, EBB began to take an active interest in Italian politics, supporting the cause of democratic reform along with Italian unity and independence from Austria. She came to admire the nationalist leaders Cavour and...

In September 1856, Giuseppe Mazzini sent Jessie White a letter entreating her to raise funds for the Italian cause. Soon after this she followed Mazzini to Italy, hoping to gain instruction from him.

While in London, MF came into contact with Giuseppe Mazzini , the Italian nationalist and patriot. On arriving in Italy she soon became immersed in Italian politics, and their friendship introduced her to a...

Her reading of Farini initiated her enthusiasm for Italian nationalism and her passionate devotion to Mazzini . She wrote that all the history and all the poetry I read imbued and confirmed me in ideas...

As well as immersing herself in Rome's spiritual life (which was particularly intense following the recent papal election of Pius IX ), FN also took an interest in national politics and the revolutionary ideas of...

By 1867 ACS was deeply interested in republicanism, particularly French and Italian politics. In March of that year he met Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini . In later years, his political opinions veered gradually in the...

MS is often said to have lapsed into conservatism with her husband's death. She did indeed break with the Philosophic Radicals, and was charged by Trelawny with backing down. During the violence preceding the Reform...

Other key figures involved included Charles Dickens , Giuseppe Mazzini , Mary and William Howitt , and Douglas Jerrold . Scholar Kathryn Gleadle calls this radical unitarian club a unique, feminist experiment in adult...

At the age of twenty-four, JWM (then Jessie White) embarked on a propaganda lecture tour of northern England and Scotland to raise money and support for the cause of Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini .