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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
Charles was educated at boarding schools. He badly antagonised...
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
, was then ostracized in some...
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
In her local life, however, MJ felt isolated. On one occasion she told Martha Lovelace (later Beauclerk) that her only friend was a young Student of Oxford
Jones, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley.
375
probably not an intellectually stimulating friendship...
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
It was in...
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
Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...

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