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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | Through a brother-in-law of her husband's, Henry Nettleship
, she had access to advice in her historical work from leading scholars: Pater
, Ruskin
, Benjamin Jowett
, Mark Pattison
, and Goldwin Smith
. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 66 |
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 |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Ward, Mary Augusta. “Introduction”. Robert Elsmere, edited by Rosemary Ashton, Oxford University Press, p. vii - xviii. vii |
Literary responses | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's friend Benjamin Jowett
praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot
.Walter Pater
also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. Colby, Vineta. The Singular Anomaly: Women Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. New York University Press. 150 |
Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | Betty Barnes, The Book Burner was probably inspired by Walter Scott
's account of a cook who used her employer's manuscript collection to fuel a fire and line pie-tins. Blain, Virginia, editor. Victorian Women Poets: A New Annotated Anthology. Longman. 264 |
Author summary | Oscar Wilde | OW
's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol
, events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose... |
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. 17 andn25 |
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