Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Constance Fletcher | She knew many other prominent members of the English literary world, like Rudyard Kipling
, Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, and Henry James
. |
Friends, Associates | Ethel M. Arnold | EA’s other acquaintances from her early life in Oxford included Walter Pater
, Max Müller
(whose daughter attended Oxford High School with her), and Benjamin Jowett
, Master of Balliol. Later in life, friends and... |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
's other literary, cultural, and civic-minded friends included writers Henry James
, Walter Pater
, Walter Crane
(a moving spirit in the Arts and Crafts movement), and the philathropist and reformer Octavia Hill
(whose... |
Friends, Associates | Rhoda Broughton | RB
's vitality, sincerity, and pungent wit gained her the friendship of some of the most notable people of her day. |
Friends, Associates | Algernon Charles Swinburne | He had ties to writers Anne Ogle
, Mary Louisa Molesworth
, Ouida
, and Mathilde Blind
. His movement through England's literary circles also brought him into the company of Thomas Carlyle
, James Anthony Froude |
Friends, Associates | Mona Caird | MC
shared a particularly close friendship with William Sharp
(who wrote as Fiona MacLeod
) and his wife Elizabeth
(who wrote his biography). The Sharps, who lived a two minutes' walk away from MC
in... |
Friends, Associates | 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
,... |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Virginia Woolf | 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. Meisel, Perry. The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater. Yale University Press, 1980. 17 andn25 |
Education | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
was educated at home by governesses of several nationalities: Mademoiselle Titsie
, Marie Girard
, Rose Frohnstein
, and the English M. L. J., on several of whom she lavished that warmth of temperament... |
Dedications | Julia Constance Fletcher | JCF titled her second novel (this time published as G. F., in three volumes) Mirage, dedicated to Walter Pater
: it is known chiefly for its portrait of the young Oscar Wilde
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Fitzsimons, Eleanor. Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew. Abrams Press, 2016. 76 |
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