Rupert Brooke

PA kept a very detailed diary between the ages of thirteen and fifteen. She published excerpts and illustrations from it, with passages from her two juvenile novels, in I Should Have Been a Hornby Train...

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

DB 's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey (1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke , Gwen Raverat , Ka Cox ...

Rupert Brooke 's production of Milton 's Comus, for which Frances Darwin (later Cornford ) designed the costumes, opened at the New Theatre in Cambridge.

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...

Rupert John Cornford was named after Rupert Brooke , who had died eight months earlier, and John Swan , a miner who met the Cornfords through the Workers' Educational Association .

In this collection Cambridge again functions as an important subject. Frances Cornford saw her Cambridge poems as emblematic of her poetry as a whole. They served as a gauge for her poetic development and also...

During her schooldays literature was her greatest escape. She remembers Hansel and Gretel, the first story she read in English and reread many times, followed by Snow White. She also read...

SJ 's novel The Lovely Ship opened a trilogy. The others, The Voyage Home and A Richer Dust, followed in January 1930 and in 1931; all three appeared together as The Triumph of Time...

Friends who attended the house-warming of her London flat included Naomi Royde-Smith , Rupert Brooke , and Walter de la Mare .

Rupert Brooke was initially a family friend (six years younger) of RM . The independent friendship they established lasted until his death in the First World War. Of Macaulay's biographers, Emery suggests she may have...

Lefanu suggests that Tudor's obsession with the idea of honey for tea, in his nostalgia for childhood as sanctuary from his present painful life, was a source in the evolution of Rupert Brooke 's famous...

To celebrate the appearance of her collection, RM threw a party at her flat to which she ambitiously invited Walter de la Mare . He attended, as did her publisher for this book, Frank Sidgwick

Like RM 's previous novel, this is concerned with the difficulty of choosing between competing ideologies. Its heroine, Alix Sandomir, is a young disabled woman, an artist who moves from staying with one set of...

The same year she got to know Edward Marsh . Her early years with Murry (and her visits to Garsington Manor) further developed her network of relationships with writers and artists. At Runcton in 1912...