Attributions | Julia Wedgwood

New Attributions

Here is my list of Wedgwood’s Spectator and Reader contributions, using the following codes for the grounds of the attribution: (for details of how I got here, see this page)

(SB – already identified by Sue Brown in her Wedgwood biography (see resources), with Brown's evidence detailed below;

TA – textual analysis: overlap with already-known writings;

NT – already identified in Wedgwood’s Nineteenth-Century Teachers;

C – mentioned in correspondence;

I – initialled;

CR – cross-referenced by another of her writings

RT - mentioned by Robert Tener in a 1960 note from before the old Spectator records were lost)

Big thanks to Sue Brown for carefully checking some of these attributions and discussing them with me. Many thanks also to Patrick Leary for referring me to Robert Tener's records.

Any Victorianists out there who see a problem with any of these attributions, let me know!

Reader

Utilitarianism, March 1864 (TA)
Büchner’s 'Matter and Force', May 1864 (TA)
Books on Free-Will and Necessity, July 1864 (C)[1]
The Secret of Hegel, March 1865 (C)[2]
Hegel’s Dead Secret, June 1865 (C)[2]

[1] Browning to J. W., 2 August 1864, in The Brownings’ Correspondence 5435.

[2] F. D. Maurice to J. W., 1865, WM E57-31543.

Spectator

Mr Darwin’s Descent of Man second notice, Mar 1871 (SB)[1]
Christianity and Positivism, August 1871 (SB)[2]
The Natural and the Supernatural, November 1871 (SB)[3]
Christianity as a System, August 1872 (SB)[4]
The Constitution and Course of Nature, November 1872 (C, TA)[5]
The Development of Christianity, August 1873 (TA)
The Fair Haven, November 1873 (C)[6]
Hume and the Positive Philosophy, April 1874 (TA)
Hume and the Utilitarian Ethic, April 1874 (CR)
Supernatural Religion, two parts, July and August 1874 (CR, C)[7]
Mr Sidgwick’s Methods of Ethics, two parts, March 1875 (RT, TA)
Henry Thomas Buckle, October 1875 (NT)
‘The Unseen Universe’, November 1875 (TA)
The Gnostics of the First Two Centuries, February 1876 (TA)
Lord Amberley’s ‘Analysis of Religious Belief’, two parts, July 1876 (TA)
What is Christianity?, November 1876 (TA)
Life of Charles Kingsley, two parts, January 1877 (NT)
John M'Leod Campbell, two parts, September 1877 (C)[8]
The First Opponent of Christianity, March 1878 (C)[9]
Altruism and Selfishness, May 1878 (TA)
Self and Unself, May 1878 (TA)
Eternal Punishment and Eternal Hope, July 1878 (I)
The Negative Stage in the Life of Thought, August 1878 (TA)
A German Hypatia, August 1878 (TA)
Invalids, August 1878 (NT)
The Drawbacks of the Intellectual Life, August 1878 (NT)
The Relation of Memory to Will, September 1878 (NT)
The Vanity of Men of Letters, September 1878 (NT)
Apologies, September 1878 (NT)
Character and Position, October 1878 (TA)
A Dialogue on Fate and Free-Will, two parts, January 1879 (I)
Science and Faith, April 1879 (C)[10]
La Rochefoucauld, July 1879 (TA)
Friends Old and New, October 1879 (TA)
Justice, October 1879 (TA)
The Moral Ideal, parts I and II, December 1879 (TA)
‘Grievances of Women’, May 1880 (TA)
Aristotle on Free-Will, parts I and II, July 1880 (TA)
The Duke of Argyll on the Unity of Nature, September 1880 (TA, C)[11]
The Political Characteristics of Woman, October 1880 (TA)
Reserve, November 1880 (RT)
The Duke of Argyll on Nature and the Supernatural, January 1881 (TA, C) [11]
The Hero as Man of Letters, April 1881 (CR)
‘The Majority’, February 1881 (NT)
More Biographies of Carlyle, November 1881 (RT)
Youth and Age, December 1881 (NT)
Moral Purpose in Fiction, March 1882 (RT, CR)
A Botanist on Evolution, April 1882 (C)[12]
The Relation of History to Politics, July 1882 (RT)
Biography, July 1882 (NT)
Selfishness, August 1882 (TA)
Pleasure and Pain, September 1882 (TA)
Dislike, February 1883 (TA)
Gratitude, March 1883 (CR)
The Future Life, July 1883 (CR)
The Misleading Character of Law as an Index to Morals, September 1883 (RT)
Christianity and Politics, February 1884 (TA)
The Treatment of the Insane, September 1884 (C)[13]
Democracy and Truth, September 1885 (TA)
Party Spirit, October 1885 (TA)
Men and Women, July 1886 (TA)
Obedience, August 1886 (TA)
The Age of Woman, August 1887 (TA)
Fellow-Travellers, August 1887 (TA)
Experiment, September 1887 (TA)
Charles Darwin [third notice], December 1887 (RT, SB)[14]
The Decay of Reticence, October 1888 (TA)
Twelve Years' Trial of the Vivisection Act, March 1889 (RT)
Evolution and Politics, July 1889 (TA)
Democracy and Justice, April 1890 (RT)
Women and Politics, May 1890 (RT)
'Le disciple', August 1890 (TA)
Old and Young, September 1890 (TA)
Shakespeare as a Historian, February 1892 (RT)
Experimental Legislation, March 1892 (RT)
The Church in Danger, August 1892 (RT)

[1] Charles and Emma Darwin to J.W., after 11 March 1871, Darwin Correspondence Project DCP-LETT-8127.

[2] J.W. to Ellen Tollet, 26 August 1871, WM 401.

[3] William Erasmus Darwin to Charles Darwin, 22 November 1871, Darwin Correspondence Project DCP-LETT-8080F.

[4] J. W. to Mary Rich, August 1872, WM 325.

[5] J. W. to Jane Gourlay, 5 November 1872, on her 'Butler article' and 'Butler proofs'.

[6] George Howard Darwin to Emma Darwin, Darwin Correspondence Project DCP-LETT-9157F.

[7] J. W. to Ellen Tollet, 10 and 28 July and 2 August 1874, WM 401.

[8] J. W. to Jane Gourlay, 4, 5 and 6 September 1877, WM 447.

[9] J. W. to Jane Gourlay, 12 April 1878, WM 447.

[10] J. W. to Richard Holt Hutton, 5 April 1879, WM E59.

[11] J. W. to Ellen Tollet, 2 October 1880, WM 401. These two essays are a two-part set so the discussion of the first one in this letter identifies the second as hers also.

[12] J. W. to Asa Gray, 21 July 1881, 3 February 1882, 4 May 1882, 11 June 1882, Asa Gray correspondence files of the Gray Herbarium, 1820-1904.

[13] J.W. to Victoria Welby, 7 October 1884, Welby Fonds 1970-010_box019

[14] Emma Darwin to Henrietta Litchfield, December 1887, CUL DAR 219.9:634.