Walter Pater

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 .

This collection of essays marks her turn from the search for pure aesthetic perception and expression towards the growth of social conscience. She frames this change by her reading of Pater 's Marius the Epicurean...

VL acknowledges several influences in her preface, including archaeologist Eugénie Sellers , Bernard Berenson , and Mary Logan (the pseudonym of Mary Smith Costelloe, future wife of Berenson ). She closes with a Valedictory for...

When her mother dies leaving her some money, Janet writes to her husband (who still idolises her, but looks down upon her from a mental height and explains things in the simplest possible way, with...

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.

The novel was a massive success, in the words of Henry Jamesa momentous public event. Critic John Sutherland deems it the best-selling work of quality fiction in the nineteenth century. By the summer...

MAW 's friend Benjamin Jowett praised David Grieve as the best novel since George Eliot .Walter Pater also approved, but critics were not enthusiastic. Sales were good, but there were some hostile reviews...

The reviewer for the Morning Post praised AM (perhaps remembering the earlier controversy over prose stylists) as a delicate thinker and delicate writer and perhaps the most sincere and uncompromising of those authors who appear...

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...

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...

The Academy published MF 's sonnet written in tribute to Walter Pater , who had died at the end of July.

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...

One of the first and most appreciative readers of VL 's work was John Addington Symonds , a leading cultural historian of the time. Her book also brought her the notice and friendship of other...

This was one of EM 's favourites among her later works. Walter Pater , to whom she had sent a copy, wrote to express the opinion that she had succeeded in a remarkable way in...

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...