Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
Dedications | Alice Meynell | She dedicated the volume to Coventry Patmore
, though their friendship had largely waned. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 131 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Sinclair | Several members of CS
's extended family were published authors. Her elder half-sister Janet
published religious works. The best-known in her own day was her great-niece Lucy Walford
, romantic novelist (whom Coventry Patmore
... |
Fictionalization | Alice Meynell | To many of her contemporaries (especially male contemporaries), AM
symbolised the perfection of Woman and Mother. Many descriptions of her suggest Woolf
's Mrs Ramsay in To the Lighthouse. Coventry Patmore
and Francis Thompson |
Friends, Associates | Alice Meynell | AM
suspended her close friendship with poet Coventry Patmore
because of his increasing jealousy of her friendships with other men. Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 115-16, 125 Meynell, Viola. Alice Meynell: A Memoir. J. Cape, 1947. 118-19, 121-2 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
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 | Lucy Walford | LW
had many friends among literary people and those who moved in literary circles. She discussed the books of her childhood with Reginald Palgrave
, who shared many of her early reading experiences, and Wilkie Collins |
Friends, Associates | Matilda Betham-Edwards | Coventry Patmore
and the pioneer doctor Elizabeth Blackwell
lived in the same village as MBE
. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 122 |
Friends, Associates | Catherine Gore | CG
was acquainted with a number of important literary figures. Before leaving London for the Continent she attended an assembly given by Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
to which Disraeli
, Lady Morgan
, and Letitia Landon
also... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Those who publicly testified that the relationship between Hunt and Ford had every outward appearance of a marriage included Brigit Patmore
, wife of Coventry Patmore
's grandson). Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990. 198-9 |
Friends, Associates | Christina Rossetti | Around this time she became aware of her brother Dante Gabriel
's involvement with Elizabeth Siddal
, although she and Siddal met only in 1854 and were never intimate friends. Close family friends of Christina... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Alice Meynell | AM
's associations with Aubrey de Vere
, Patmore
, and Meredith
were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 19 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Laura Ormiston Chant | The volume's shorter independent pieces include sonnets. The 70-page Verona, about 1,600 lines of pentameter blank verse, treats the conflict between the title character and her fiancé, Adrian, over her commitment to raising personally... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | The theoretical essay with which FPC
headed Josephine Butler
's landmark collection Woman's Work and Woman's Culture, 1869, launches out with wit: Of all the theories current concerning women, none is more curious than... |