Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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 | 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... |
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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