Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
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. |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | She met a number of important writers through her newspaper work. She associated with Alexander Macmillan
, Sir George Grove
, Edmund Gosse
and his wife Ellen
, John Morley
, and her uncle Matthew Arnold |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
planned her next novel as a much weightier study of the intellectual impact of historical thought on conventional faith; it was deeply influenced by the intellectual milieu of Oxford and the histories of her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Martineau | The article made a deep impression on the young Matthew Arnold
when it was read aloud to the family by their father, Thomas
. Webb, Robert Kiefer. Harriet Martineau: A Radical Victorian. Columbia University Press, 1960. 191 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel features Robert Elsmere's gradual loss of his orthodox Christian faith, and the tension which this causes between the emerging sceptic and his wife, Catherine Leyburn (based on MAW
's friend Laura Lyttleton
)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Davies | The paper points out the failings of middle-class schools for girls, while quoting with approval Matthew Arnold
's views about the necessity of education for class and national stability. In her conclusion, ED
insists that... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Augusta Ward | The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Brontë | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | In Culture and Anarchy (titled after the famous essay collection by Matthew Arnold
, 1869 ), Rich mixes her own poetry with the words of nineteenth-century Anglo-American women writers Jane Addams
, Susan B. Anthony |
Intertextuality and Influence | Rosa Nouchette Carey | One of the many novels which RNC
chose to dignify by quotations to head her chapters, this seems to make a particular attempt to impress. Those quoted imply considerable learning, even if (as seems likely)... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | MG
was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea
Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Guest |
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