George Augustus Moore

AG chose to focus on Grania—a controversial figure in Irish legend who leaves her intended husband for a lover but then returns to him—because of her strength of character. As she explains,I think I...

She had been working on it, and reading it aloud to her husband, by the end of 1917. George Moore , too, read it before publication and suggested the incorporation of a real-life incident which...

SKS made early friendships with the novelists G. B. Stern and Walter Lionel George .

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

SKS was an intimate friend for some forty years of novelist Gladys Stern (known as Peter), with whom she jointly authored several books. Stern said Kaye-Smith's close friends were those with tremendous vitality, capable...

Through her brother James, she moved in intellectual circles that included George Moore and Oscar Wilde .

Literary figures regularly seen at JF 's afternoon salons included George Moore , Max Beerbohm , Arnold Bennett , Somerset Maugham , Sir William Nicholson , and Sir Henry Irving . It was at one...

From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson

Her parents, who were the friends of many literary and artistic people, introduced her to an impressive social circle. Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning , William Michael Rossetti , Thomas Hardy , Walter Pater ,...

In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx , barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson , and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter . Others she met in...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...

George Moore published a novel on the ever-popular theme of Héloise and Abelard.

JOH found herself the subject of a more personal response in works by George Moore . Mildred Lawson in Celibates (1895), whose obnoxious heroine was modelled on Moore's reading of his relationship with Hobbes, was...

Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm was IT 's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote...

This was an act of self-assertion. AL was probably impressed by the sophistication of Ernest, whose father was a wealthy diamond merchant. On marrying him, however, she discovered first that he had an illegitimate daughter...