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Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Byron | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Christabel Pankhurst | She was very fond of Betty as a little girl, Pankhurst, Richard Keir Pethick. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Last Words on Christabel: an unpublished letter of February 1958”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 14 , No. 3/4, pp. 467-9. 469 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Judith Kazantzis | JK
's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford
academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers
(later the Home Guard)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Warton | JW
's brothers, Joseph
(her elder by two years) and Thomas
(her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College
(a public... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Daryush | In 1969 the poet Roy Fuller
, about to lecture on syllabics at Oxford
and planning to centre his remarks on Marianne Moore
, discovered just in time how important ED
's experiments were in... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Augusta Ward | In 1868 Mary Augusta Arnold met Mark Pattison
, Rector of Lincoln College and a prominent Oxford scholar, and his wife, Emily Francis Pattison
, a former art student and connoisseur. Unconventional and bohemian, the... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Mary Jones |
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