Edmund Gosse

Laura Alma-Tadema was the daughter of the homoeopathic doctor George Napoleon Epps . Her sister Ellen married Edmund Gosse . Childless herself, she was a loving mother to her stepdaughters. She herself became a...

His income had been high and his family had lived well, with a large London house, servants, and plenty of travel. He left his daughters a trust fund for life, plus a lump sum of...

Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond , the American Moncure Conway (who had lost a position at Harvard for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett (who began calling her by her first name in 1870)...

Frances's association with Rupert Brooke began with the rehearsals for the play and grew into friendship. They discussed their poetry with each other, and Frances counselled and consoled Rupert in his many love affairs. She...

Her mother was Irish, but EHD admitted to having little knowledge of her maternal antecedents. She wrote: I have never been in Ireland and know little about them except from novels and the Abbey...

TD 's Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan was published nearly five years after her death with an introductory memoir by noted British critic Edmund Gosse , who also chose the title for the collection.

Several of the poems had already appeared in print on the pages of the Bengal Magazine. The collected poems were published by the Saptahik Sambad Press in Bhowanipore in what Edmund Gosse described as...

Enthusiastic reviews by British and French critics Edmund Gosse and André Theuriet opened the doors to a European readership. Gosse's praise was not unequivocal and he placed particular emphasis on her othered heritage. He writes,...

Gosse commented on this work also and noted that the story is simple, clearly told, and interesting; the studies of character have nothing French about them, but they are full of vigor and originality.

Mulvihill's website at http://marauder.millersville.edu/~resound/ephelia/ offers a great deal of information including identifications, put forward with greater or lesser degrees of certainty, of twenty-three historical personages named in Female Poems on Several Occasions, together with...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

This volume (once owned by Edmund Gosse ) reproduces with very little revision nearly all the poems in the octavo, as well as adding fifty-five more. It also includes AF 's important prose preface, her...

Later in the nineteenth century, Edmund Gosse (who then owned one of AF 's handsome verse manuscript volumes) made some parade, in chivalric, heavily gendered language, of his gallantry towards Ardelia, who, he said...

She made many friends and acquaintances both as a figure in society and as an author. These included literary people such as George Meredith , Thomas Hardy , Punch editor Owen Seaman , William Archer

Edmund Gosse wrote to congratulate JOH on The Serious Wooing, paying it the high compliment of calling it her new version of Dryden 's All For Love, as well as one of...