Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
38, 60
Henry Sidgwick
Standard Name: Sidgwick, Henry
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Hamilton writes that tertiary education for women at the time was still on its trial; |
| Education | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's studies were undertaken in Political Economics and Logic under professors Marshall
and Foxwell
. Edwards, Joseph, editor. The First Labour Annual 1895: A Year Book of Industrial Progress and Social Welfare. No. 1, The Harvester Press, 1971. 163 Anonymous,. “Woman and Home: Miss Emma Brooke, the Author of ‘A Superfluous Woman’”. The North American, 31 May 1895, p. 6. (31 May 1895): 6 |
| Education | Toru Dutt | TD
and Aru
were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel Sidgwick | |
| Instructor | Jane Ellen Harrison | During her time at Newnham she was taught and advised by Henry Sidgwick
, one of Newnham's founders, and by S. H. (Samuel Henry) Butcher
. Robinson, Annabel. The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2001. 38-40 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | Henry Sidgwick
compared this novel to Madame Bovary and concluded that Yonge was better than Flaubert
. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. 2 Athenæum. J. Lection. 1920 (1864): 209 |
| Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | Henry Sidgwick
organised the meeting. He invited the Cambridge university dons, as well as the wives and daughters of University men living in the town of Cambridge. Lectures began the next term, and MGF
was... |
| Textual Features | Ethel Sidgwick | Though she calls her work a memoir, ES
spends only twenty-six pages writing about Eleanor Sidgwick's childhood, and gives much of the text to the history of Newnham, before as well as during her aunt's... |
| Wealth and Poverty | George Eliot | GE
spent £5,000 establishing, with the help of Henry Sidgwick
and Michael Foster
, a three-year studentship in physiology at Cambridge
in memory of Lewes
, open equally to men and women. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 367 Haight, Gordon S. George Eliot: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1968. 522 |
Timeline
31 May 1838: Philosopher Henry Sidgwick was born in Skipton,...
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31 May 1838
Philosopher Henry Sidgwick
was born in Skipton, Yorkshire.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1871: Newnham College for women was founded in...
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1871
Newnham College
for women was founded in Cambridge.
McWilliams-Tullberg, Rita. Women at Cambridge. Gollancz, 1975.
57-9
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
1593
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
114
1874: Henry Sidgwick published The Methods of Ethics,...
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1874
Henry Sidgwick
published The Methods of Ethics, which aimed to find a rational basis for morality, or to reconcile morality with reason.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
902
1882: The Society for Psychical Research was founded...
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1882
The Society for Psychical Research
was founded with the purpose of conducting objective scientific research into supernatural phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and mediumship.
Knight, David. The Age of Science: The Scientific World-View in the Nineteenth Century. Basil Blackwell, 1986.
195-7
Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England. Virago, 1989.
102
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
125
Gauld, Alan. A History of Hypnotism. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
389-90
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
143
“Society for Psychical Research”. Monstrous.com: Ghosts.
28 August 1900: Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (and husband...
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28 August 1900
Henry Sidgwick
, philosopher (and husband of Eleanor Sidgwick
, Principal of Newnham College
), died of cancer at his brother-in-law's house in Terling, near Witham, Essex.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
262
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1909: E. E. Constance Jones, philosopher and logician,...
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1909
E. E. Constance Jones
, philosopher and logician, published A Primer on Ethics, in which she engages with moral psychology and Henry Sidgwick
's ethical hedonism.
Cicero, Samantha, and Mary Ellen Waithe. “E. E. Constance Jones (1848-1922)”. Contemporary Women Philosophers, 1900-today, edited by Mary Ellen Waithe, Kluwer, 1995, pp. 25-49.
28-31, 47n8
1926: New statutes at Cambridge University first...
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1926
New statutes at Cambridge University
first permitted women to hold university (as opposed to merely college) teaching posts, to belong to university faculties and sit on faculty boards.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
328
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Girton College”. British History Online, 2012.
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