Athenæum. J. Lection.
1739 (1861): 259
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | Its first teacher was Elizabeth Whitehead
, later the founder of the Working Women's College
. Its eighty pupils included Catholics, Jews, Unitarians, and freethinkers. The school, which was heavily subsidised by Smith and cost... |
Textual Production | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The first published volume of future novelist MEB
was a collection of verse entitled Garibaldi
and Other Poems. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1739 (1861): 259 Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland. 110 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's first publications included verse in The Beverley Recorder. A patron, John Gilby
, volunteered to underwrite the production and publication of a volume of her poetry, stipulating that the principal piece should... |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
was again much involved in sympathy with Italian hopes for independence and liberal reform, while Garibaldi
as military leader and Cavour
as statesman orchestrated the campaign which in October 1860 made Victor Emmanuel II |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Included here were A Musical Instrument, a treatment of the Greek god Pan and of the distortions inflicted on the human life by a calling to poetry, which became one of her most anthologized... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | 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
... |
Textual Features | Jessie Ellen Cadell | The book makes another shift in tone as well as setting when the Franco-Prussian war looms; Gauthier confesses that as a man of action he is personally glad to see war. He leaves London, and... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Despard | After many adventures, including involvement with a beautiful French girl but not including finding the object of his quest, Spiridion returns to Sicily in time to join Garibaldi
's army of liberation. The father, discovered... |
Reception | Amelia B. Edwards | John Cordy Jeaffreson
gave two full Athenæum columns to Half-a-Million of Money, but largely in order to complain that in spite of its unusual plot the novel was essentially derivative, and sapped his confidence... |
Textual Production | Margaret Fuller | In her later columns, written while she was in Italy, MF
positioned herself as a staunch proponent of Italian nationalism, and called on her American readers to give their support. She continued to write... |
politics | Elizabeth Gaskell | In contrast to her refusal to commit herself publicly on domestic politics, EG
supported the struggle for Italian independence. Her name appeared on a petition spearheaded by Florence Nightingale
in support of Garibaldi
's troops... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Janet Hamilton | Many of the poems are temperance pieces; others treat religious topics. Spirit-Rapping employs satiric humour to attack what seems to JH
self-evidently impious—nonsensical—absurd. Hamilton, Janet. Poems of Purpose and Sketches in Prose. T. Murray. 44 |
Reception | Janet Hamilton | In 1868 a petition to Benjamin Disraeli
on behalf of JH
resulted in an award of £50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. She also received a visit from a son—or possibly a general—of Italian unification... |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | Her son says that in the preface to this book CH
talks about Garibaldi
's rough reception from the Irish in Birkenhead, which she had witnessed. (Though generally popular in England, Garibaldi was disliked... |