Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | VW
's father, Sir Leslie Stephen
(1832-1904), was a Victorian philosopher and historian of ideas . . . literary historian and critic, and—perhaps most important—a biographer. Rosenbaum, S. P. “An Educated Man’s Daughter: Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group”. Virginia Woolf: New Critical Essays, edited by Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy, Vision; Barnes and Noble, pp. 32-56. 36 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen
's daughter from his previous marriage, Laura
(1868-1934), suffered from some form of mental disability and lived most of her life in institutions. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 74 |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. Wood, James. “Phut-Phut”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-12. 11 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth von Arnim | EA
gave birth, resentfully, to her son, Henning Bernd
(H. B.), in England on 27 October 1902. Growing up in England and attending Eton
during the First World War, he displayed a kind of heroism... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Uttley | |
Education | Algernon Charles Swinburne | |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | After leaving Eton
, he met Lady Pauline
and Walter Trevelyan
, who became longtime friends and supporters. At Oxford he was first introduced to the Pre-Raphaelites
, and he forged friendships with Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Literary Setting | Jan Struther | In JS
's original concept, her heroine moved on the fringes of high society, as her name implies. Miniver derives from vair, which is merely squirrel fur but is used in ceremonial costume, it also... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | JS
's father, Oliver Strachey
, was the sixth son of Sir Richard
and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey
. He attended Eton
, then Balliol College, Oxford
; the family home was in London... |
Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | HS
's two villains are in truth fairly familiar, as are her two heroes, Henry Fitzherbert and Edgar Aubrey, and her two heroines, Camilla St Clair and Emily Harland. Fitzherbert takes most of the narrative... |
Education | Percy Bysshe Shelley | As a schoolboy at EtonPBS
opposed the system of fagging (allotting junior boys virtually as private slaves to wait on older ones). He was expelled by University College, Oxford
(which later set up a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Savage | MS
's son George Savage
was born on 18 July 1750 and educated at Eton
. He went on to King's College, Cambridge, was ordained and held posts successively as chaplain to a member of... |
Textual Features | Mrs Ross | Many chapters are headed with quotations from Shakespeare
or Cowper
. This novel pits domestic (upper-class) ties against destructive passions, the latter aroused by the fascinating Marchioness of Laisville (whose vices do not ruin her... |
Textual Production | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Most of ATR
's unpublished manuscripts and letters are held by the University of London
and Eton College
libraries. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 333 |
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