Max Beerbohm

ES wrote later that at no time in her life did she make intimate friends easily. Most people she had to do with she liked up to a certain point only, but she could count...

Among the other poems were a number that dealt with illicit sexuality. Cousin Kate uses ballad metre to explore the sexual double standard and lack of female solidarity. The speaker, a humble cottager seduced by...

At the time Max Beerbohm praised the play in the Saturday Review for its unfeminine willingness to tackle a large subject in serious spirit. On the other hand the writer of GP 's obituary...

But word about their plan got out. Summoned to appear before the authorities, they turned themselves in at precisely the moment that the protest was to start. Other suffragettes duly demonstrated in their absence. The...

In An Appreciation of Ouida, Street singled out for praise her genuine and passionate love of beauty . . . and a genuine and passionate hatred of injustice and oppression. Although he noted that...

Three essays appeared, all by male critics, commending Ouida 's novels: by G. S. Street in The Yellow Book, Stephen Crane in Book Buyer, and Max Beerbohm in the Saturday Review.

Writing in the year of its publication, Max Beerbohm argued that the reason for the unusually cordial reception accorded this novel was not (as Ouida's newly warm critics had suggested) that she had...

LOM continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth , Elizabeth Bowen , Stephen Spender , Max Beerbohm , Hope Mirrlees , Djuna Barnes , Charlie Chaplin , the novelist Henry Green

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...

To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf 's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore and Francis Thompson

In the mid-1890s, CM attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland , editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp , Netta Syrett , Max Beerbohm , Kenneth Grahame

RM also regularly attended the gatherings of the Friday Hampstead Circle , presided over by Dorothy and Reeve Brooke and later by Sylvia and Robert Lynd . These gatherings were attended by RM 's friends...

AL 's A Few Words with Mr. Max Beerbohm appeared in The Sketch.

AL 's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air:Max Beerbohm , Aubrey Beardsley , Henry Harland (editor of the...

By now she had contributed parodies of Max Beerbohm , George Moore , and others.