Edmund Gosse

JOH 's speeches and interviews regularly deal with literature. In an interview with William Archer , she admits to admiring Arthur Wing Pinero 's characterisation of women, while noting how little individualised are some of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

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

CP 's early contacts included Alfred Tennyson , Robert Browning , Thomas Carlyle , Ralph Waldo Emerson , and John Ruskin . Later in life, he knew Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edmund Gosse . Among...

JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...

HJ 's circle of acquaintance in the world of letters and the theatre was very wide. As well as men of letters such as Edmund Gosse , it included a great many women writers, among...

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...