Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions... |
Occupation | Herbert Spencer | Through his publications, such as Social Statics, Principles of Psychology, First Principles, and The Principles of Ethics, he founded evolutionary philosophy, an ethical system that expounded individualism. Its application of the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edith J. Simcox | Much of EJS
's writing was influenced by John Stuart Mill
, Jeremy Bentham
, and Auguste Comte
. She wrote for a range of publications including the Contemporary Review, the North British Review... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Stuart Mill | In part, the book focuses on the philosophy of Auguste Comte
. |
Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
published The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte
, Freely Translated and Condensed; it appeared in two volumes from John Chapman
. Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press. 217 Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago. 2: 385 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Publishing | Harriet Martineau | When Edward Lombe
, a wealthy follower of Comte, learned of the project, he sent HM
£500. From this she paid for the printing expenses and took £200 for her own payment. She also arranged... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | HM
credits Comte
in her preface with an immense influence on recent intellectual developments: his ideas, she writes, are tacitly recognised as the foundation of all that is systematic in our knowledge. Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Translator Martineau, Harriet, Peter Eckler. 3 |
Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Comte
himself was so impressed by her work that he had it translated into French and substituted for his own original in the Positivist Library, his personal selection of the 270 great books worthy... |
Textual Features | Harriet Martineau | Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead... |
Publishing | George Henry Lewes | GHL
serially published Comte
's Philosophy of the Sciences in The Leader. Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press. 46 |
Intertextuality and Influence | George Eliot | As she moved on intellectually from her religious youth, she became steeped in the Higher Criticism of the Bible, and increasingly interested in alternative explanatory systems, particularly those of social science—including Herbert Spencer
... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | This was followed by Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot, 1873, and The George Eliot Birthday Book, 1878. Price, Leah. The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel. Cambridge University Press. 119-23 |
Friends, Associates | Lucie Duff Gordon | While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin
, writers Alfred de Vigny
, Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire
, and Léon de Wailly
, Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte
, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | This is a social progressivist argument, trading in chauvinistic notions of British cultural and racial superiority, and strongly dependent on the notion of inherited proclivities as well as faith in social systems as shapers of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before... |
Timeline
1830-42: Auguste Comte published Cours de philosophie...
Writing climate item
1830-42
Auguste Comte
published Cours de philosophie positive in six volumes.
1851-54: Auguste Comte published Système de politique...
Writing climate item
1851-54
Auguste Comte
published Système de politique positive in four volumes; it was translated as The System of Positive Polity from 1875-7.
1967: Barbara Wootton (created the first woman...
National or international item
1967
Barbara Wootton
(created the first woman life peer in 1958) became deputy speaker of the House of Lords
, first woman to sit on the woolsack in an institution which she saw as democratically indefensible...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Texts
Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Translator Martineau, Harriet, John Chapman, 1853.
Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Translator Martineau, Harriet, Peter Eckler, 1893.