Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
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Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | 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... |
Publishing | Geraldine Jewsbury | |
Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | While some contemporaries such as Hall disliked the book, others like Jane Carlyle
(to some extent), Erasmus Darwin
, and Mazzini
found it promising. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 80 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Hamilton King | The work is written largely in blank verse, with rhyme used for emphasis in particular sections. Emily Hickey
suggests that HHK
left it open to question whether The Disciples, as a whole, is a... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | 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
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 269 Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 137 Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 24 |
Textual Production | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
published The Disciples (written at the request of Mazzini
, who had died the previous year), a five-part historical and political poem about the struggle for a unified Italian Republic. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 82 Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 164 |
Textual Production | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
's Letters and Recollections of Mazzini appeared, edited by the eminent historian G. M. Trevelyan
, who was among other things an authority on Garibaldi. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
's final publication, her controversial essay The Religion of Mazzini, appeared in the Dublin Review. Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 165n |
Author summary | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
, a deeply religious woman, published primarily during the second half of the nineteenth century and focused many of her writings on her lifelong passions: the struggle for Italian nationalism and the revolutionary figures... |
politics | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | Harriet corresponded with Mazzini
, Italian patriot and writer, from 1862, and they remained close until his death. Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Hamilton King | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Hamilton King | HHK
was described by one observer as a delicate woman . . . noble-minded, red-haired and pre-Raphaelite-looking. Howe, Mark Antony de Wolfe, editor. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Small, Maynard. 21 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Hamilton King | In the poem's second stanza, HHK
laments the timing of her work and also acknowledges Mazzini
's profound influence: O Book of mine, which he commanded! long Waited and worked for, and achieved too late... |
politics | Jessie White Mario | 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
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 53 |
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