Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
entered the social scene of the capital with several connections already made. Her London friends included members of the Kingsley and Rossetti families, feminist reformer Frances Power Cobbe
, author John Ruskin
, Samuel Carter |
Friends, Associates | Maria Jane Jewsbury | Determined to be a writer, MJJ
actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard
, dramatist James Robinson Planché
, the Rev. George Robert Gleig
, and Sir Walter Scott |
Friends, Associates | Florence Nightingale | By 1858 she was in correspondence with Harriet Martineau
. She also knew John Stuart Mill
, Giuseppe Garibaldi
, James Clark
, Edwin Chadwick
, William Rathbone
, Julia Wedgwood
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Friends, Associates | Margaret Oliphant | MO
and her husband sometimes attended parties with such writers as Samuel Carter Hall
, Anna Maria Hall
, Dinah Mulock (later Craik)
, and Mary Howitt
. Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press, 1986. 19 |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Bowles | Samuel Carter Hall
recalled that she was not handsome, though with a very gentle manner and gracious countenance; a lovable, because a good, woman. Hall, Samuel Carter. A Book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance. Virtue, 1871. 198 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Florence Nightingale | S. C. Hall
, the journal's editor, extended a special invitation to her to write the piece. Bishop, William John, and Sue Goldie. A Bio-Bibliography of Florence Nightingale. Dawsons for the International Council of Nurses, 1962. 108 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anna Maria Hall | Samuel Carter Hall
seems to have edited much of her work before publication. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 139 |
Leisure and Society | Julia Pardoe | JP
associated with Frances Trollope
, and corresponded with Mrs John Hearne
, Samuel Carter Hall
and Anna Maria Hall
, Francis
and Margaret Bennoch
, and Sir John Philippart
. Szladits, Lola. “A Victorian Literary Correspondence: Letters from Julia Pardoe to Sir John Philippart, 1841-1860”. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 55 , 1951, pp. 367-78. 368 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166: 297-8 |
Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | Reception in Ireland was not as favourable as in England. The Dublin Review called the book an interesting and most insidious, and therefore, most dangerous work. qtd. in Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 143 |
Literary responses | Grace Aguilar | The Women of Israel went into its sixth English edition by 1870 and was published, as were most of GA
's works, in many successive editions in the US. It was reissued by Cambridge University Press |
Material Conditions of Writing | Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger | The title continues: Including sketches of the state of society in Holland and Germany, in the 17th century. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of Elizabeth Stuart. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825. title-page |
Publishing | Jane Porter | In her later years JP
wrote for military and popular journals, McLean, Thomas. “Jane Porter’s Later Works, 18251846”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 20 , No. 2, 1 June 2009– 2024, pp. 45-62. 47 |
Publishing | Anna Maria Hall | AMH
published an Irish sketch, Master Ben, in The Spirit and Manners of the Age, a periodical edited by her husband Samuel Carter Hall
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
Publishing | Anna Maria Hall | This included several sketches previously published in the New Monthly Magazine, The Amulet, and The Spirit and Manners of the Age—all edited by her husband
. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 77 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jenkins | Daniel Dunglas Home was, said a reviewer of EJ
's book, the most successful of all the Victorian mediums. Among his many supporters were Anna Maria
and Samuel Carter Hall
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Home |
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