Clara Pater

WP was particularly close to his unmarried sisters. Both women were accomplished in their own right. The elder sister, Hester , became known as a talented embroiderer and friend to Mary Augusta Ward and Virginia Woolf

In June 1881 Vernon Lee stayed with AMFR 's family in London. The next month the friends visited Oxford with Mary's sister Mabel . Their Oxford social life included attending a dinner party hosted by...

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) began attending Latin classes taught by Clara Pater (sister of Walter ). They began on Greek in 1899, and it seems that the following year Virginia switched to private lessons.

After her sister Eliza bought the house in Melbury Road, EB hosted afternoon salons there (which, however, a commentator calls undistinguished). In the 1890s, Hester and Clara Pater (sisters of Walter) were frequent...

Soon after the publication of Marius the Epicurean, WP and his sisters traded their Oxford home for London: for 12 Earl's Terrace, Kensington. Clara and WP frequently returned to Oxford, where they stayed...