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Violence | Ouida | Ouida
wrote to her friend W. S. Blunt
expressing fear for her life; biographer Jane Jordan
thinks this fear related to problems with her tenancy. Jordan, Jane. “Ouida: The Enigma of a Literary Identity”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 57 , No. 1, pp. 75-105. 86 |
Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Cynthia made a three-month visit to Egypt as a child, lasting from early January to March 1895 (the visit on which her mother consummated her love-affair with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
), but she never afterwards... |
Travel | Lady Cynthia Asquith | This was forty-six years to the day since the child Cynthia Charteris had set out with her mother and siblings to make the same journey (arriving in each case on 4 January the next year)... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | This volume runs from her youth up to Charles Stewart Parnell
's death in 1891, the closing of an important historical and personal chapter. She spends considerable time on her relationship with her father
... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism, Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol. 24 , No. 1, pp. 51-71. 61 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Jane Howard | During the 1970s EJH
began writing plays for television. She contributed a script to the popular series Upstairs Downstairs, which was broadcast in November 1974 and won an award. She also wrote a play... |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | In the same year as her Three Plays for Pacifists, LMS
published Selected Poems. Her literary admirer W. S. Blunt
wrote a Preface for the volume. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Violet Fane | A large selection of VF
's personal papers are held at the University of Reading
. The collection includes letters, diaries, sketchbooks, as well as manuscript copies of her works. “Papers of Mary Montgomerie Currie (Violet Fane)”. University of Reading: Library: Special Collections: Authors’ Papers. |
Textual Production | Augusta Gregory | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
published under his own name a sonnet sequence entitled A Woman's Sonnets, originally penned by AG
. Smythe, Colin et al., editors. “Chronology”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, Colin Smythe, pp. 1-12. 2 Pethica, James. “Commentary on ’A Woman’s Sonnets’ by Lady Gregory”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, pp. 114-22. 98 |
Textual Production | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
published much of her work with small publishers and in limited edition chapbooks, now fragile and rare, though both the British Library
and the Bodleian
have most of her publications. She was a Fellow... |
Textual Features | Violet Fane | The collection also includes a political poem, The Irish Patriots, dedicated to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
. Literature Online, the home of literature and criticism. http://lion.chadwyck.com. under Fane, Irish Patriots |
Textual Features | Lady Margaret Sackville | The poems in this volume speak of war, loss, and guilt. Its dedication, to someone gone from the poet, reads: I will not call you when the wind / Calls you lamentingly at night... |
Residence | Violet Fane | They had left London after their wedding on 24 January. Currie's appointment to the Ottoman Porte (which ran until 1898) spanned a particularly violent time in Turkish history, including massacres of Armenians between 1894 and... |
Reception | Violet Fane | The Dictionary of Literary Biography suggests that VF
's poetry had wide appeal (rather than that it was ever part of a literary canon) by saying that it was read by upper-class women as well... |
Reception | Lady Margaret Sackville | Blunt
presented LMS
in terms that were unlikely to cut much ice with the audience she probably most desired. He called her the best . . . of our English poetesses, at least of the... |