Connections
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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... |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Education | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice said she was the least favoured of the Potter girls, and had little education. There is disagreement among biographers as to how far she shared her sisters' tuition by resident governesses in a wide... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | The close relationship of Marian Evans (later GE
) with Herbert Spencer
came to an end after it became clear that he was not interested in intimacy. Karl, Frederick R. George Eliot: Voice of a Century. W.W. Norton, 1995. 151-2 |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | Lewes was married. He and his wife had agreed as rational free-thinkers that monogamy was unnatural. He had thus tolerated her relationship with his friend Thornton Hunt
, and supported her children by Hunt, who... |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | They made a friend of George Meredith
some time before 1890 and visited him often. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933. 66 |
Friends, Associates | Beatrice Webb | Their closest friends were statesman R. B. Haldane
, Labour leader Arthur Henderson
, Liberal politician Herbert Samuel
, G. B. Shaw
, and political psychologist Graham Wallas
, the last two both Fabians. They... |
Friends, Associates | Emily Shirreff | ES
's circle of friends included Sir William Grove
(inventor of the Grove battery), scientist Mary Somerville
, lawyer and Royal Society president Lord Wrottesley
, astronomer Sir George Biddell Airy
, Sir John Herschel |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | Bertram was the first Freethinker Schreiner had encountered, and he strongly influenced her life, although she knew him for only three days. He lent her a copy of Herbert Spencer
's First Principles. Spencer's... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Power Cobbe | FPC
's wide London circle included Walter Bagehot
, Frances Sarah Colenso
and her husband Bishop Colenso
(while they were home from Africa), Henry Fawcett
, Charles Kingsley
, W. E. H. Lecky
, Sir Charles Lyell |
Friends, Associates | Maria Grey | The Shirreffs were a sociable family whose friends and acquaintances were varied. The scientist Mary Somerville
, geologist Sir Charles Lyell
, and Sir William Grove
, inventor of the Grove battery, were numbered among... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | MBE
set a great deal of store by meeting men distinguished as authors or in other fields, as a spur to literary achievement of her own. She was given to boasting of her acquaintance with... |
Friends, Associates | L. S. Bevington | By this year LSB
had met and grown quite close to the social scientist and founder of social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer
. This became one of the longest and most influential friendships of her life. Domingue, Jackie Dees. Doctrine and Dynamite. Texas A and M, 2000. 14 C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols. 9: 228 |
Health | Constance Naden | While in India CN
contracted a serious fever, which kept [her] a prisoner Hughes, William Richard et al. Constance Naden: A Memoir. Bickers and Son, 1890. 43 |
Timeline
By 12 April 1851: Herbert Spencer published his first book,...
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By 12 April 1851
Herbert Spencer
published his first book, Social Statics, on social philosophy.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1224 (1851): 402
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
1855: Herbert Spencer published Principles of ...
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1855
Herbert Spencer
published Principles of Psychology.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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1862: Herbert Spencer published his exposition...
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1862
Herbert Spencer
published his exposition of First Principles.
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.
1873: Evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer...
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1873
Evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer
published The Study of Sociology.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Spencer, Herbert, and Talcott Parsons. The Study of Sociology. University of Michigan Press, 1961.
340
1876: The first volume of Herbert Spencer's The...
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1876
The first volume of Herbert Spencer
's The Principles of Sociology was published.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Elliot, Hugh Samuel Roger. Herbert Spencer. Books for Libraries Press, 1970.
37-44
1892-3: Herbert Spencer published The Principles...
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1892-3
Herbert Spencer
published The Principles of Ethics in two volumes; this formed part of his larger series entitled A System of Synthetic Philosophy.
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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
129
Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Ethics. Appleton, 1896, 2 vols.
1: 160-6
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.
1897: With her publication of Grains of Sense,...
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1897
With her publication of Grains of Sense, philosopher Victoria, Lady Welby
, shifted from theology towards a more academic and analytic study of meaning.
Smith, Sean, archivist. “Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Lady Welby, Oct. 16, 1907”. York University: York University Gazette online: From the archives, 26 Jan. 2000.
Myers, William Andrew. “Victoria, Lady Welby 1837-1912”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-Today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 1-24.
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Texts
Spencer, Herbert. First Principles. Williams and Norgate, 1862.
Spencer, Herbert. Principles of Psychology. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
Spencer, Herbert. Social Statics. John Chapman, 1851.
Spencer, Herbert. The Complete Works of Herbert Spencer. InteLex Corp.
Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Ethics. Williams and Norgate, 1893, 2 vols.
Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Ethics. Appleton, 1896, 2 vols.
Spencer, Herbert. The Principles of Sociology. Williams and Norgate, 1896, 3 vols.
Spencer, Herbert. The Study of Sociology. H. S. King, 1873.
Spencer, Herbert, and Talcott Parsons. The Study of Sociology. University of Michigan Press, 1961.