Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Alfred Tennyson | A sociable man (although distrustful of unknown admirers) Tennyson was acquainted with many of the major artistic and political figures of the nineteenth century, including Edward FitzGerald
, Coventry Patmore
, Edward Lear
, William Ewart Gladstone |
Friends, Associates | William Makepeace Thackeray | Despite his lack of scholastic success WMT
was popular socially, and his wide circle of friends at Cambridge included Alfred Tennyson
, Edward FitzGerald
, and John Allen
. His brief time at university
also... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | Her father had literary friends, and among them introduced her to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(probably the father rather than the son
), Edward FitzGerald
, and George Borrow
. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ménie Muriel Dowie | MMD
was related to several notable literary and cultural figures, including her cousin Elizabeth (Liza) Lehmann
, a distinguished vocalist and composer best known for her song cycle In a Persian Garden. The song... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Fanny Kemble | According to her sister Adelaide, she had another fervent admirer in the poet Edward FitzGerald
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From Friend to Friend. Editor Ritchie, Emily, John Murray. 69 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lucy Knox | Her father, the Hon. Stephen Edmond Spring Rice
, forged lifelong friendships with Alfred Tennyson
, Thomas Carlyle
, and Edward FitzGerald
during his years at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School
and Trinity College, Cambridge |
Education | Freya Stark | Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare
, Sir Walter Scott
, Byron
, Keats
, Kipling
, Shelley
, Wordsworth |
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