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Social History
- "Condition of the Women and the Female Children" (18 March 1843)
Literature
- Thomas Carlyle annoyed that The Athenaeum advertised his work
- Diana Mulock Craik compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Hans Christian Andersen (19 November 1853)
- Diana Mulock Craik mocked for her support of women's rights (1870 and 1871)
- Athenaeum rated Elizabeth Gaskell as "if not the most popular . . . the most powerful and finished female novelist of an epoch singularly rich in female novelists." (November 1865)
- W. E. Henley's essays on Thackeray, Disraeli, Meredith, and Arnold
- Christina Rossetti publishes first poems in The Athenaeum
- Matthew Arnold's letter about J. H. Newman
- Edmund Gosse on Coventry Patmore
- Reviewer criticizes Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native for its use of archaic dialect (23 November 1878)
Painting and Sculpture
- Praise for Frederick Leighton's David (29 April 1865)
- Frank Stone reviews the PRB (June 1849)
- John Linnell's letter to the editors
- On fairy painting (July 1867)
- F. G. Stephens's obituary of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (15 April 1882)
- Reviewer praises John Wright Oakes, ARA
Science
Last modified 12 October 2005