Edmund Gosse

In their introductions to her poems, both Symons and Gosse paint SN as the exotic, mysterious Oriental Other. Gosse describes her as to the fullest extent autochthonous . . . spring[ing] from the very...

This volume was introduced by her English champion, Edmund Gosse , who takes a modest tone in recounting their first meeting, but still takes credit for recognising her talent. He finds that in this volume...

The volume begins with three tributes to SN : a poem by A. Rogers (an English writer for The Indian Magazine and Review) and short excerpts from Gosse 's and Symons 's appraisals of...

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

HL first appealed for financial help to the Royal Literary Fund in 1895. On 14 February that year Walter Besant wrote a letter on her behalf which emphasized her ill health and friendless condition; Mabel Robinson

VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...