Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Edmund Gosse
Standard Name: Gosse, Edmund
Used Form: Sir Edmund Gosse
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Textual Production | Toru Dutt | 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. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Publishing | Toru Dutt | 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... |
Literary responses | Toru Dutt | 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,... |
Literary responses | Toru Dutt | 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. Gosse, Edmund et al. “Introduction to Poems by Toru Dutt”. Hindu Literature, edited by Epiphanius Wilson, Colonial Press, pp. 425-33. 430 |
Cultural formation | Ella Hepworth Dixon | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | 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)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | 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. Swanson, Vern G. The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Garton. 95 |
Wealth and Poverty | Laurence Alma-Tadema | 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... |
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