Her own previously published poems (Arsinoë's Cats and To My Cat) shared the volume with the work of other poets including Baudelaire
, Edmund Gosse
, and Théophile Gautier
.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson”. Marketing the Author: Authorial Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930, edited by Marysa Demoor and Marysa Demoor, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 134-55.
142-3
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
MAW
's meticulous character study and tragic love story is sometimes considered her best novel. It was positively received by George Meredith
, Sir J. M. Barrie
, and Henry James. James
wrote to her...
Reception
Jane Taylor
Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...
ES
had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...
Literary responses
Vita Sackville-West
VSW
received personal congratulations on her stories from Sir Edmund Gosse
and John Galsworthy
. Among reviewers the only unfavourable voice was that of Rebecca West
. S. P. B. Mais
in the Daily Express...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Robins
ER
, Marion Lea
, and William Archermodified for stage production Edmund Gosse
's translation of Ibsen
's Hedda Gabler (published earlier the same year).
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
55-7
Textual Production
Elizabeth Robins
Heinemann
published an English translation of Ibsen's The Master Builder by William Archer
and Edmund Gosse
; ER
helped with the translation.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge.
Three-quarters of a century later her daughter reported that the young Edmund Gosse
was a great admirer of BRP
's poetry in general. As a schoolboy he knew and loved her romantic lyric about Robin...
Author summary
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century.
The British Library catalogue spells her name Sarojini Nayadu
.
While studying in England...
Friends, Associates
Sarojini Naidu
SN
met a number of notable English literary figures at Miss Manning's accommodations, and particularly Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, both of whom helped her to launch her literary career.
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarojini Naidu
The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...
Timeline
1852-1860: The writing of Philip Gosse inspired a beachcombing...
National or international item
1852-1860
The writing of Philip Gosse
inspired a beachcombing and aquarium craze.
1864: Unitarian and feminist Mentia Taylor formed...
1893: Arthur Munby published a narrative poem called...
Writing climate item
1893
Arthur Munby
published a narrative poem called Susan: A Poem of Degrees, a thinly disguised account of his tempestuous secret love for working-class diarist Hannah Cullwick
.
1907: Edmund Gosse anonymously published Father...
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1907
Edmund Gosse
anonymously published Father and Son, an autobiography of his early years which presents his father, the scientist Philip Gosse
, as an oppressive, small-minded bigot.
Birch, Dinah. “Fond Father”. London Review of Books, pp. 3-5.
3
10 July 1919: The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender...
Writing climate item
10 July 1919
The Hawthornden Prize, founded by Alice Warrender
(a Scottish baronet's daughter) and named after William Drummond
of Hawthornden, was first awarded, for the best work of imaginative literature
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus.
89n2
of the year.
Texts
Dutt, Toru, and Edmund Gosse. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882.