Eliza Wilson
Eliza Wilson was the wife of Walter Bagehot and a member of the prominent Wilson family connected with The Economist, which had been founded by her father, James Wilson. Her surviving correspondence with Bagehot, later edited by her sister Mrs. Russell Barrington, provides an unusually intimate record of their courtship and intellectual companionship.
Mrs. Russell Barrington
Mrs. Russell Barrington, born Emilie Isabel Wilson, was an English biographer, memoirist, and editor associated with Victorian literary and artistic circles. She wrote on figures including the painter George Frederic Watts and edited the correspondence of Walter Bagehot and her sister Eliza Wilson.
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot was an English essayist and journalist, who served as editor of The Economist. He is best known for The English Constitution, Lombard Street, and Physics and Politics. Jacques Barzun wrote about Bagehot: “His singular genius derives from his double vision. In any conflict of persons or of ideas he was always able to see that neither side was perverse or stupid, but had reasons for militancy; and he entered not only into these reasons but also into the feelings attached. This is a rare talent, especially when it does not lead to shilly-shallying in the double-viewer's own course of action. Bagehot could always state the reasons for his choices with the utmost clarity.”
