Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Stepniak and his work, including Underground Russia, 1883, were influential in ELV
's personal life and career. Gray, Anne, and Pam Blevins. The World of Women in Classical Music. WordWorld Publications, pp. 876-7. 876 |
| Friends, Associates | Emmeline Pankhurst | Among those gathering at the Pankhursts' Russell Square salon were William Morris
, Annie Besant
, Keir Hardie
, Tom Mann
, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 24 |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Distinguished guests at Newnham
at this time included Ruskin
and Turgenev
; JEH
recalls giving them tours of the college in her Reminiscences of a Student's Life. Harrison, Jane Ellen. Reminiscences of a Student’s Life. Hogarth Press. 44 |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Neil Harwood | The position of her father
as a journal editor put INH
in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston
... |
| Friends, Associates | F. Mabel Robinson | FMR
shared to the full the social involvement of her family with entertaining leading figures in London cultural life: such men as John Singer Sargent
, Robert Browning
, William Morris
, and Oscar Wilde |
| Friends, Associates | Edith J. Simcox | Her connection with George Eliot
and her own political activities brought EJS
into friendly association with a number of key social figures including William Morris
, Eliza Orme
, and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
. Fulmer, Constance M. et al. “Preface, Introduction and Editorial Materials”. A Monument to the Memory of George Eliot, Garland, pp. xi - xvii, 1. xii Fulmer, Constance M. “A Nineteenth Century ’Womanist’ on Gender Issues: Edith Simcox in her <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Autobiography of a Shirtmaker</span>”;. Nineteenth Century Prose, Vol. 26 , No. 2, pp. 110-26. 115 |
| Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | RK
and his sister Trix spent Decembers (the Christmas holidays) with their mother's sister Lady Burne-Jones
, and her husband, the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones
, at their home, The Grange, in Fulham. Here... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Gardam | Gardam's The Hollow Land (addressed to an older age-group) has an epigraph from the prose romance by William Morris
which bears the same title. The land in her book is the Cumbrian fells, full... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ethel Mannin | EM
mentions spending her earlier years, whilst I was still serious, Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74 Mannin, Ethel. All Experience. Jarrolds. 74, 75 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society. title page, 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Dorothy Whipple | This novel's opening is a prime example of DW
's skill at hooking her readers. She opens with the ancient gateway of the house standing in darkness, illuminated every few minutes by the flash of... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Charlotte Yonge | This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Constance Smedley | Jessica and her younger brother, Edgar, both respond with ecstasy to an offer to borrow books they have not already read (William Morris
, William Blake
, [a]nd people I don't know; and books... |
| Leisure and Society | L. T. Meade | These tastes leaned to the pre-Raphaelite, with Morris
hangings and photogravures after Burne-Jones
and Watts
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 222, 228 Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 223 |
Timeline
1893: Printing by William Morris and Emery Walker...
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1893
Printing by William Morris
and Emery Walker
appeared in Arts and Crafts Essays, published by Rivington, Percival and Company
.
April 1893: The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the...
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April 1893
The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of the Fine and Applied Arts was founded this month by Charles Holme
and first edited by Cleeson White
.
26 June 1896: William Morris's Kelmscott Press published...
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26 June 1896
William Morris
's Kelmscott Press
published the works of Chaucer
, one of its most splendid and famous productions.
1900: Gertrude Jekyll published her influential,...
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1900
Gertrude Jekyll
published her influential, highly personal Home and Garden, which describes the creation of her famous cottage garden at Munstead Wood in Surrey.
By earlier 1903: Elizabeth and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats...
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By earlier 1903
Elizabeth
and Lily (or Susan Mary) Yeats
established the Dun Emer Press
in association with Evelyn Gleeson
, manager of Dun Emer Industries
in Dundrum, near Dublin.
Some sources suggest that the press...
March 1906: A company was set up, largely through the...
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March 1906
A company was set up, largely through the efforts of Henrietta Barnett
, for the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb just north of London, as a community including people of all classes and income levels.
1933: The businessman Frank Pick succeeded in bringing...
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1933
The businessman Frank Pick
succeeded in bringing together the many privately-owned underground railway lines in London under the management of a body to be called London Transport
.
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