Edmund Gosse

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.

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...

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...

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)...

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...