William Archer

Oscar Wilde 's review of this collection for The Woman's World called RMWone of our most artistic workers in poetry. In 1902William Archer called the collection less mature than her later volumes...

William Archer later singled out A South Coast Idyl as showing the wealth of colour on this painter's palette. He also maintained, however, that she had done nothing finer than On the Downs.

Before she became a successful dramatist in the 1930s, DS made a couple of abortive attempts at writing plays. In 1922 she attempted her first play, Pirate Ships (later renamed Portrait of the Artist's Wives...

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...

ER was romantically linked to William Archer for most of the 1890s. She also had a long, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly relationship with George Bernard Shaw . In 1909 and 1910, she carried...

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