Walter Pater

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...

Of these Be It Cosiness, in verse, claimed that Beerbohm lacked consistency as an aesthete: he In language quaint defended paint (i.e. cosmetics), and now proceeds to disparage Pater.

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...

VL was at this time a guest of Mary Robinson and her family. She combined her connections with theirs in order to meet a number of major cultural figures: Sir Leslie Stephen , Robert Browning

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...

Dedicated to the author's companion and fellow writer Mary Robinson , this volume is another collection of essays, some previously published. Here Lee begins to dismiss the moral implications and social conditions within and around...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

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)...

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

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