Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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. |
Instructor | John Buchan | After going to school in several different towns as his father was allotted to various parishes, JB
went on a scholarship to Glasgow University
, where he specialised in classics and was taught by Gilbert Murray |
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... |
Publishing | Michael Field | The Academy published MF
's sonnet written in tribute to Walter Pater
, who had died at the end of July. Vadillo, Ana I. Parejo. “Sight and Song: Transparent Translations and a Manifesto for the Observer”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 38 , No. 1, pp. 15-34. 15 |
Friends, Associates | Michael Field | Katharine
and Edith Cooper
shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater
, Oscar Wilde
, Arthur Symons
, Charles Shannon
, Sarianna Browning
, Thomas Sturge Moore |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | From 1890 (when they were introduced to Walter Pater
and attended, along with Oscar Wilde
and Arthur Symons
, a lecture he gave) Katharine and Edith were deeply influenced in their writing by Pater. Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray. 119-20 |
Literary Setting | Michael Field | The preface addresses the problems of writing historical fiction: A few hard facts are before us, a murder, an abduction, a marriage; with regard to none of these events can Mary Stuart's will be known... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michael Field | Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery
in London, the Louvre |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michael Field | Both Edith and Katharine contributed to this extraordinary journal, giving their impressions of travel, art, religion, death, and love. They also record encounters with their literary contemporaries, including Robert Browning
, George Meredith
, John Ruskin |
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)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
Reception | Laurence Hope | LH
's life and work have produced an increasing body of recent criticism, much of it from Edward Marx
, who maintains the Laurence Hope website. An early article by Marx critically surveys contemporary reviews... |
Textual Features | Vernon Lee | Here she forgoes a chronological structure in favour of ordering her eclectic subjects (such as ancient sculpture, medieval love poems, Elizabethan plays set during the Renaissance) in an eclectic manner. In this way she imitates... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Vernon Lee | Vineta Colby
suggests that Lee's novel is not a specific attack on either Pre-Raphaelitism or Ruskin
's Christian aestheticism, but on the more general high art groups, which read hedonism into Pater
and vaunted the... |
Timeline
1 March 1873: Walter Pater published his influential study...
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1 March 1873
Walter Pater
published his influential study of writers, sculptors, and painters from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century: Studies in the History of the Renaissance.
4 March 1885: In Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater established...
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4 March 1885
In Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater
established his view that the city was the modern topic for writers. The novel is set in Marcus Aurelius
's Rome.
24 May 1887: Walter Pater published Imaginary Portraits,...
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24 May 1887
Walter Pater
published Imaginary Portraits, a collection of four short stories.
15 November 1889: Walter Pater published Appreciations, with...
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15 November 1889
Walter Pater
published Appreciations, with an Essay on Style.
February 1893: Walter Pater published a selection of lectures...
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February 1893
Walter Pater
published a selection of lectures and essays, Plato
and Platonism.
21 August 1911: Leonardo da Vinci's painting La Gioconda...
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21 August 1911
Leonardo da Vinci
's painting La Gioconda or the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris; it was recovered two years later when the Italian thief tried to return it to the...
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