Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Florence Fenwick Miller
Standard Name: Miller, Florence Fenwick
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Anna Kingsford | She had been inspired to discover more about medical research after publishing an anti-vivisection letter from Frances Power Cobbe
in her journal, The Lady's Own Paper. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | In the Woman's Signal, their friend Florence Fenwick Miller
condoled with FPC
on the loss of her special woman friend. qtd. in Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004. 351 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | The marriage was likely a happy one, although Florence Fenwick Miller
recalled AW
telling her that she had never been in love, and that she did not understand any reason for marrying except an... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kingsford | At first, AK
's mother opposed the marriage, insisting that she must instead marry a unnamed elderly man with a wealthy background. However, after she and her cousin eloped unchaperoned, consent was granted for them... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Kingsford | Maitland appeared to be strongly devoted to AK
throughout her lifetime, assisting her as she pursued her medical studies, encouraging her efforts to speak out against vivisection, and taking care of her when she fell... |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Banks | The actress Mrs M'Gibbon
, known as the Manchester Mrs Siddons
, was a close friend of IB
's family. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969. 23 |
| Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | She also knew Frances Power Cobbe
, Vernon Lee
, Florence Fenwick Miller
, and Mabel Robinson
(likely, too, her sister A. Mary F. Robinson
, who also wrote for the Athenæum at the same... |
| Literary responses | Augusta Webster | In the 1870s and 1880s AW
was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of... |
| Literary responses | Anna Kingsford | Despite this unfavourable mainstream review, the work exerted a lasting influence in vegetarian and alternative religious circles: After first reading Henry Salt
's Plea for Vegetarianism, Mahatma Gandhi
went on to rank AK
's... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Feminist Florence Fenwick Miller
, in a Sunday lecture in the year following HM
's death, represented her as one of the shining lights of our time, whose life was one of the most remarkable... |
| Occupation | Mary Frances Billington | She worked successively on The Globe, the Southern Echo (published in Southampton), the national Echo, and the Daily Graphic. Brake, Laurel, and Marysa Demoor, editors. Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism In Great Britain and Ireland. Academia Press, 2009. |
| Occupation | Henrietta Müller | Around 1890 or 1891 it changed its name to The Woman's Herald, though it continued to be edited by Müller until she moved to India. Her sister Eva Maria McLaren
subsequently took the... |
| Publishing | Isabella Ormston Ford | On 23 April 1892 IOF
contributed an article entitled Women and the Labour Party to a special series for the Leeds Times on Social and Political Questions by Representative English Women. Other notable contributors... |
| Textual Features | Isabella Banks | The character of Hesta Stapleton in this novel strongly resembles IB
's doctor and life-long friend, Mrs Florence Fenwick Miller
. Burney, Edward Lester. Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks. E. J. Morten, 1969. 99 |
| Textual Production | Anna Kingsford | While compaigning for suffrage, AK
owned and edited The Lady's Own Paper for a period of about three months, using her married name, Mrs Algernon Kingsford. Sources disagree about the length of her editorship (as... |
Timeline
4 January 1894: Lady Henry Somerset and Annie E. Holdsworth...
Writing climate item
4 January 1894
Lady Henry Somerset
and Annie E. Holdsworth
published in London the first issue of the Woman's Signal, a weekly magazine addressing temperance issues, and also broader topics such as suffrage, working conditions, and domestic...
4 January 1894: The Woman's Signal: a Weekly Record and Review...
Women writers item
4 January 1894
The Woman's Signal: a Weekly Record and Review devoted to the interests of women in the home and in the wider world (successor to Henrietta Müller
's Women's Penny Paper) issued its first number...
23 March 1899: The Woman's Signal, a temperance periodical,...
Building item
23 March 1899
The Woman's Signal, a temperance periodical, ceased publication in London.
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Texts
Miller, Florence Fenwick. Lessons of a Life: Harriet Martineau. Sunday Lecture Society, 1877.
Miller, Florence Fenwick. “The Ladies’ Column”. The Illustrated London News, pp. 420-2.