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8. Augustus De Morgan and the Bloomsbury Milieu

  • Rosemary Ashton (author)
Chapter of: Augustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy(pp. 196–218)

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Title8. Augustus De Morgan and the Bloomsbury Milieu
ContributorRosemary Ashton (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0408.08
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0408/chapters/10.11647/obp.0408.08
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightRosemary Ashton
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-04
Long abstractAugustus De Morgan lived in Bloomsbury, never more than a quarter of an hour’s walk from University College’s premises, for around a decade and a half during the early part of his career; even after he and his family moved slightly north of Euston he worked in Bloomsbury until his resignation from the College in 1866. Always a sociable man with wide connections, he was part of several Bloomsbury-based networks, including staff of the London University (later, University College) and the somewhat overlapping group of writers involved in the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, as well as the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, several of whom were near neighbours and close friends of the De Morgans in Bloomsbury. Drawing on recent historical work on Victorian literary and scientific life, this essay explores De Morgan in the context of the intellectual, political and social milieux of his Bloomsbury surroundings.
Page rangepp. 196–218
Print length23 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Rosemary Ashton

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Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and an Honorary Fellow at University College London

Rosemary Ashton OBE, FRSL, FBA is Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature and an Honorary Fellow of UCL. She has published critical biographies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Thomas and Jane Carlyle, studies of Anglo-German relations—The German Idea (1980) and Little Germany (1986)—and books on nineteenth-century cultural history, most recently One Hot Summer (2017), about the Great Stink of 1858. The author of Victorian Bloomsbury (2012), she was the leading investigator on the UCL Leverhulme-funded Bloomsbury Project, accessible at www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project, which identifies and describes over 300 reforming institutions in the area.

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