Andrew Lang

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...

VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning

This book, immensely popular with Anglo-Indians, was welcomed in London in a short review from Andrew Lang .

Lang encouraged her to publish, as well as offering commentary on her poetry and printing her poems in his Longman's column, At the Sign of the Ship. The novel fuses Lang 's knowledge...

MK collaborated with Lang (though she is not formally credited as co-author) on at least one other publication, The Blue Fairy Book, with which in 1889 he and his wife, Leonora , launched a...

However, others were less willing to attribute the talent evident in the volume to MK . A reviewer from The Athenæum went so far as to say no doubt she owes a great deal, both...

White Poppies was serialized in Sylvia's Journal, thanks to its editor (apparently a friend of MK ), Rosamund Marriott Watson (Graham R. Tomson). Kendall was most likely acquainted with Watson through Andrew Lang

The mixed reviews that greeted Songs can be attributed to a lack of backing from Lang in advertising the book.Percy Addleshaw in The Academy found it in some measure a disappointment. Her...

MK 's first full-length published work was a short novel, in part a fairy tale: That Very Mab, written in collaboration with Andrew Lang , the classical scholar and folklore collector.

May Kendall is most notable for late-nineteenth-century poems characterized by sharp humour and sarcastic wit on topics related to evolutionary science and the new woman. Her novels employ sarcasm and irony to examine British...

MK began publishing in 1885. During this decade she became friends with classical scholar and poet Andrew Lang , who advanced her career as a writer. Although she was never part of a literary...

VH and her sister Silvia Hunt (later Fogg-Elliot) helped with the 's immensely popular versions of fairy tales from many lands and ages which Andrew Lang published this year as The Blue Fairy Book.

Friends of VH 's family included John Ruskin , Edward Burne-Jones , John Millais , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Robert Browning , and Christina Rossetti , who read Violet's early poems. VH also met and...

Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...

The volume was well-received by EGB 's contemporaries. W. B. Yeats wrote to her: I think it is full of poetic feeling and has great promise. . . . Weariness is really most imaginative and...