The ODNB says they met through Jane Carlyle's gratitude to CB
for writing an anti-socialist tract. The FC says they became friends while Balfour...
Literary responses
Clara Balfour
Regardless of any inhibition she felt, her lectures were generally well-received. Following her attendance at a lecture on Female Influence in October 1849, writer and scientist Caroline Fox
noted that there was nothing to annoy...
Occupation
Clara Balfour
She spoke this year at the Greenwich Literary Institution
on temperance, and was soon lecturing also on the position of women in society, and other related topics. She travelled around the country to lecture, and...
Textual Features
Clara Balfour
Fox
was also in attendance at CB
's lecture on Female Characters in our Literature, where the lecturer apparently observed that in Shakespeare
the character is everything, often the circumstances in the different plays...
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Texts
Fox, Caroline, 1819 - 1871. Memories of Old Friends. Editor Pym, Horace N., J. B. Lippincott, 1882.
