Dowson, Jane. “What is the true standing of Oxford poet Elizabeth Jennings?”. Oxford Today, 23 Oct. 2016.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it... |
| Education | Dorothy Wellesley | |
| Education | Arthur Hugh Clough | He was a model student at Rugby School
, where Thomas Arnold
was headmaster and his son Matthew Arnold
a fellow student who became a close friend of Clough's. From Rugby AHC
went on to... |
| Education | Mary Augusta Ward | On her arrival in Oxford, her father
became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor
, and having her copy work for him. He provided... |
| Education | Elizabeth Jennings | Her BA later (according to the Oxford system) brought her an automatic MA. She began working for a graduate degree on Matthew Arnold
, but did not finish it. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 36 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | He was immensely influential. As editor of the Cornhill Magazine from 1871 to 1882, he published Henry James
, Thomas Hardy
, Matthew Arnold
, Robert Browning
, and George Meredith
, among others. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, 1983, pp. 32-56. 34 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Highly conscious of this legacy, and of her position as the niece of poet and essayist Matthew Arnold
, MAW
saw herself as working in the Arnoldian family tradition of earnest, conscientious, socially responsible political... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's father, Thomas Arnold
, was the second son and namesake of the eminent Victorian headmaster Thomas Arnold. Matthew Arnold
was his elder brother. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 2 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | His mother, born Julia Arnold
, was a younger sister of Mary Augusta Ward and a niece of Matthew Arnold
. She took a first-class English honours degree at the new Somerville College, Oxford
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel M. Arnold | EA's uncle Matthew Arnold
, a leading writer of the Victorian period, was the author of such texts as Culture and Anarchy. Her sister Mary Augusta, known as Mrs Humphry Ward
, was one... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dinah Mulock Craik | George Lillie Craik became (following his marriage to Dinah Mulock and possibly as a result of his connection with her) a partner in the Macmillan publishing firm
. Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne, 1983. 15 |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
| Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The Times obituary (which was accompanied by an editorial) commented that Broughton herself was more entertaining than her novels, filling her social role far more brilliantly than any of her Joans or Nancies or Belindas... |
| 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 |
Timeline
December 1848: Arthur Hugh Clough published The Bothie of...
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December 1848
Arthur Hugh Clough
published The Bothie of Tober-na-Fuosich, later reprinted as The Bothie of Tober-na Vuolich.
Clough, Arthur Hugh. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. Editor Norrington, Arthur L. P., Oxford University Press, 1968.
vi
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
207
February 1849: Matthew Arnold published his first volume...
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February 1849
Matthew Arnold
published his first volume of poetry, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, anonymously under the initial A.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1144 (29 Sept. 1849): 982-3
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
9
October 1852: Matthew Arnold published Empedocles on Etna,...
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October 1852
Matthew Arnold
published Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems.
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
61-2
21 March 1853: The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold addressed...
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21 March 1853
The thirty-year-old Matthew Arnold
addressed to Arthur Hugh Clough
a classically misogynist letter about women writers, their works and their looks.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 March 2008
November 1853: Matthew Arnold published Poems: A New Ed...
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November 1853
Matthew Arnold
published Poems: A New Edition.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
9, 74
By 2 January 1858: Matthew Arnold's Merope: a Tragedy was p...
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By 2 January 1858
Matthew Arnold
's Merope: a Tragedy was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
(2 January 1858): 13
By 6 May 1865: Matthew Arnold published Essays in Criticism,...
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By 6 May 1865
Matthew Arnold
published Essays in Criticism, First Series; the second series followed in 1888.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1958 (1865): 615
By 31 August 1867: Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach (probably written...
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By 31 August 1867
Matthew Arnold
's Dover Beach (probably written in 1851) was published in New Poems.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2079 (1867): 265
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
By 20 February 1869: Matthew Arnold published his sweeping work...
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By 20 February 1869
Matthew Arnold
published his sweeping work of cultural criticism, Culture and Anarchy.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2156 (1869): 271
1880: Thomas Humphry Ward published with Macmillan...
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1880
Thomas Humphry Ward
published with Macmillan
a highly successful four-volume anthology, The English Poets.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
65
1 October 1880: Mason College or Mason Science College in...
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1 October 1880
Mason College
or Mason Science College in Birmingham, founded at a cost of more than £200,000 by Sir Josiah Mason
, who had made his fortune out of nibs for pens, opened its doors...
28 September 1883: A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant,...
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28 September 1883
A meeting of authors, chaired by Walter Besant
, gathered to found the Company of Authors, later the Society of Authors
, to improve the earning prospects of writers and lobby for copyright protection.
Parker, Derek. “Onward to 3000”. The Author, Vol.
cx
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 166-8. 166-7
November 1888: Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, Second...
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November 1888
Matthew Arnold
's Essays in Criticism, Second Series were published six months after his death.
Neiman, Fraser. Matthew Arnold. Twayne, 1968.
154
Texts
Robinson, A. Mary F. et al. “Critical Introductions”. The English Poets, edited by Thomas Humphry Ward, New Edition, Macmillian, 1897, pp. 4: 221 -34.
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy. Smith, Elder, 1869.
Arnold, Matthew. “Editorial Materials”. Culture and Anarchy, edited by Samuel Lipman, Yale University Press, 1994, p. Various pages.
Arnold, Matthew. Lectures and Essays in Criticism. Editors Super, R. H. and Sister Thomas Marion Hoctor, University of Michigan Press, 1962.