Kortright, Fanny Aikin. The Recollections of My Long Life. Printed for the author by Farmer and Sons.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Standard Name: Garibaldi, Giuseppe
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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. 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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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