Dixon, Ella Hepworth. "As I Knew Them". Huchinson, 1930.
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William Hepworth Dixon
Standard Name: Dixon, William Hepworth
Used Form: W. Hepworth Dixon
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's father
died of heart disease two months after the sudden deaths of both his eldest daughter and his eldest son. Dixon, Ella Hepworth. “Introduction”. The Story of a Modern Woman, edited by Steve Farmer, Broadview, 2004, pp. 9-39. 37 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's father, a Yorkshireman named William Hepworth Dixon
, was the editor of the Athenæum from 1853 to 1869 and wrote several novels. He was lionized by London society after the publication of... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Mary Howitt | Her mother fervently wished for some happy engagement for AMH
, but anxiously: she felt her eldest child was shy and hard to get to know. qtd. in Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955. 164 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | MADH
moved in London society all her life and had many literary friends and acquaintances. Helen Black
mentions her shelves of autograph copies of her friends' books, particularly those by S. C. Hall
and Anna Maria Hall |
| Friends, Associates | Geraldine Jewsbury | Other friends and acquaintances of the Jewburys in Manchester included the journalists Alexander Ireland
and Thomas Ballantyne
, Francis Espinasse
, educational reformer William Ballantyne Hodgson
, historian William Hepworth Dixon
(whose daughter Ella
provided... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | She wished Blackwood
, her publisher, to deny the authenticity of this work in the Times rather than the Athenæum—which just as her identity was becoming known published a nasty personal attack in its... |
| Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | In the Athenæum, William Hepworth Dixon
, while he praised the book as a graceful aid and service rendered to a very excellent institution and as abundant proof that women at the Press
could... |
| Literary responses | Mary Anne Duffus Hardy | William Hepworth Dixon
in the Athenæum (a personal friend of MADH
) wholly approved the content of these poems as echoes from the battle-ground and the tented hill which, he judged, reflected a true literary... |
| Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | Many readers, including George Henry Lewes
, were suspicious of this novel's sympathetic portrait of manufacturers, and speculated that Marian Withers was Jewsbury's response to Elizabeth Gaskell
's Mary Barton, which had presented factory... |
| Literary responses | Geraldine Jewsbury | Some have called this novel GJ
's weakest work. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 145 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1631 (1859): 148 |
| Literary responses | Eliza Meteyard | The Athenæum's review by William Hepworth Dixon
patronisingly blasted EM
for daring to take up the conventions and matter of serious history, calling the book such a sheaf of chapters on an ever-charming, ever-seductive... |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | William Hepworth Dixon
in the Athenæum was mildly positive about Only a Clod, reporting in it a purer atmosphere than usual for MEB
and avoidance of her usual criminal motifs. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1961 (1865): 716 |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | The Athenæum reviewer, William Hepworth Dixon
, admired this verse drama as an elegy thrown into dialogue, excusing its lack of stagecraft as an absence merely of the knowing turns and movements necessary when the... |
| Literary responses | Frances Power Cobbe | The Athenæum review of Italics began with a lengthy characterization of a stereotypical female politician, Miss Fanny, whom, however, it purports to distinguish from the actual FPC
. This person is not, on the... |
| Textual Production | Ella Hepworth Dixon | She was offered this position by F. V. White
on the strength of her novel The Story of a Modern Woman. As an editor she was following in the footsteps of her celebrated father |
Timeline
January 1868: W. Hepworth Dixon published Spiritual Wives,...
Building item
January 1868
W. Hepworth Dixon
published Spiritual Wives, about sensational religious practices.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
180-81
Texts
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, W. H. Allen, 1862, 2 vols.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. “Preface”. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs, edited by William Hepworth Dixon, W. H. Allen, 1862, p. iii - v.