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Education | Enid Bagnold | This small, progressive school, which emphasized the study of art, literature, and theatre, was founded and headed by Julia (Mrs Leonard) Huxley
, mother of Aldous Huxley
and sister of the novelist Mary Augusta Ward |
Textual Production | Sir J. M. Barrie | James Barrie
's fifth play, Becky Sharp (titled from the protagonist of Thackeray
's Vanity Fair), was first performed. Also this year he collaborated with Arthur Conan Doyle
on a libretto for Jane Annie. “Peter Pan: a selling exhibition of memorabilia”. C20th.com. Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press. 55 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning
, Mary Cholmondeley
, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Ford Madox Ford
, Thomas Hardy |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Agatha Christie | Although AC
was supposed to be writing propaganda, her opinions on her own chosen genre were too strong to be muzzled. Having begun with praise of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, John Dickson Carr
... |
Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
Textual Production | May Crommelin | The collaborators included Julia Frankau
, Clotilde Graves
, Margaret Hungerford
, Helen Mathers
, Florence Marryat
, Adeline Sergeant
, Tasma
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, and Bram Stoker
. The... |
Publishing | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
published her story The Catch of the Season in The Strand Magazine. The issue also features writing by Arthur Conan Doyle
and Grant Allen
. Dickens, Mary Angela. “The Catch of the Season”. The Strand Magazine, Vol. xiv , No. 79, pp. 66-72. 66-73 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Her very first fiction, rejected with a kind message of encouragement from Mr Everett
of C. Arthur Pearson
, later became the germ of her successful first novel, The Emperor's Candlesticks. She had hit... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Margiad Evans | As a story-teller Evans has a sure grasp, making every tiny detail contribute to an effect which is understated but emotionally powerful. The named character in Miss Potts and Music is largely a peg for... |
Textual Production | Julia Frankau | In 1892 JF
contributed chapter twelve to a collaboratively-written novel entitled The Fate of Fenella (along with twenty-three other authors including Helen Mathers
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
and Bram Stoker
). Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Apart from teaching his children outdoor skills on family holidays, he walked Mary Agnes daily to her first school in Aberdeen, talking with her all the way as to an intellectual equal, and dropping words... |
Education | Sophia Jex-Blake | Her admission was strongly opposed by many faculty members on the basis of gender, but most fervently by Sir Robert Christison
. Jex-Blake had some supporters within the faculty as well, including Professor David Masson |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | Kipling's fame brought easy acquaintances with celebrities. In November 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
stayed as a guest in his American home. On the death in Samoa of Robert Louis Stevenson
(whom he had never... |
Publishing | Anne Marsh | Harriet Martineau
was amazed when AM
first read her one of these tales, The Admiral's Daughter, and felt that their hostess later that evening (Sarah Wedgwood
) must have been almost equally amazed... |
Publishing | Helen Mathers | HM
collaborated with Florence Marryat
, Julia Frankau
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
, Bram Stoker
, Justin H. McCarthy
, Joseph Hatton
, and others in a serial novel, The Fate of Fenella, in The Gentlewoman. Maunder, Andrew. “Introduction”. The Fate of Fenella, Valancourt Books, p. vii - xxiii. vii Mathers, Helen et al. The Fate of Fenella. Cassell. titlepage “Summary of News”. The British Architect, pp. 407-8. 408 |