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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ellen Johnston | There is considerable tension in EJ
's social vision, in part because she lacked literary models in which a feminist and proletarian stance might be articulated. Thus while some poems represent the factory as 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 |
Publishing | Harriet Hamilton King | Garibaldi
at Varignano, HHK
's first publicly printed poem, appeared in the Observer; the poem later became Aspromonte. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 81 Rudman, Harry William. Italian Nationalism and English Letters. AMS Press. 133, 314 |
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... |
Literary Setting | Harriet Hamilton King | The first part of the collection concerns Giuseppe Garibaldi
, Felice Orsini
(whose assassination attempt on Napoleon III
it defends), and the cause the author herself had fervently embraced: that of Italian nationalism. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press. 82 King, Harriet Hamilton. Aspromonte and Other Poems. Macmillan. vii |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Aikin Kortright | She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton
, and Charles Kingsley
(all of... |
Textual Production | Fanny Aikin Kortright | FAK
says that she did translation for the Italian patriot Garibaldi
: several articles and part of his The Rule of the Monk; or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century, which was published in English in 1870. Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons. 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. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eliza Lynn Linton | She dealt with books on such topics as biography, nursing and health issues, slavery, marriage, and North America. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
Publishing | Jessie White Mario | JWM
published her accounts of the Franco-Prussian War in the Scotsman after joining Garibaldi
's troops while they fought alongside their former enemy, France. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 154, 107 |
Textual Production | Jessie White Mario | Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, JWM
's biography of the Italian revolutionary, appeared. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 112 |
Textual Production | Jessie White Mario | JWM
contributed a one-volume supplement to Alice Werner
's English translation of the Autobiography of Giuseppe 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. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 156 |
Author summary | Jessie White Mario | JWM
made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer... |
Residence | Jessie White Mario | She travelled with one of Garibaldi
's sons
, who needed medical attention in England. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 33 |
Education | Jessie White Mario | She arrived in London determined to study medicine so that she could serve as a field nurse during Garibaldi
's campaigns. She was refused entry to fourteen London hospitals. On 10 July 1856, a representative... |
politics | Jessie White Mario | Garibaldi
wrote to her before the expedition with the warning that Mazzini's plan was destined to fail. She was imprisoned for four months, all the while maintaining her innocence and demanding a trial. She later... |
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