Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Aldous Huxley | Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford
, and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Pix | MP
's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford
and Cambridge
universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School
in Buckingham... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. J. Scovell | He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton
. At the time of his wedding to EJS
he was Oxford University
's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elspeth Huxley | She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life. Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins. 165-6, 180-1, 204 |
Friends, Associates | Kate Greenaway | He commented on her work, and encouraged her to improve her style. His two main suggestions were that her art was too ornamental and decorative, and that it was not sufficiently fine and delicate... |
Friends, Associates | Barbara Pym | BP
encountered Lord David Cecil
(Oxford
don, longtime admirer, and one of the two recent rediscoverers of her work) at a media event filmed by the BBC
and aired as Tea With Miss Pym. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 44 |
Friends, Associates | Mary More | MM
's friends included, in London, a number of scientists or natural philosophers: inventor Robert Hooke
(who often visited her, and with whom she discussed dreams), physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane
, and scholar... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Elstob | After her rescue from poverty and obscurity EE
was visited by scholars eager to discuss their work with her. Edward Rowe Mores
(who published a standard work on type-founding in 1754) visited her late in... |
Friends, Associates | William Morris | While studying at Oxford
, he became a friend of Edward Burne-Jones
, who introduced him to an extraordinary group of young men: William Fulford
, Charles Faulkner
, Cormell Price
, and Richard Watson Dixon |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | The sisters were in general popular in Oxford society, but Rhoda, although at first she dined regularly at the table of scholar Benjamin Jowett
, “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (29 November 1940): 5 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Tytler | She moved to Oxford in order to be close to her friends Janet Wallace
(one of her former students) and her husband the Hegelian philosopher and Oxford
academic William Wallace
. The Wallaces originated from... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Jones | |
Friends, Associates | Anne Mozley | Since Tom had gone up to Oxford
as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx. viii |
Friends, Associates | Rose Macaulay | Through correspondence RM
became a life-long friend of Gilbert Murray
, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford
, and Chairman of the Executive of the League of Nations Union
. He was fifteen years her... |
Friends, Associates | Sylvia Townsend Warner | STW
's early friendships at Oxford
involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett
and sculptor Stephen Tomlin
. Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii. xiii Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages. 2 |
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