Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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Standard Name: Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
Used Form: W. S. Blunt
Used Form: Sir Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Connections

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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 75-105.
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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.
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, No. 1, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...
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.
Her letters to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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.
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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.
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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...

Timeline

1875: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt published Sonnets and...

Writing climate item

1875

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt published Sonnets and Songs by Proteus, which includes passionate addresses to several women.

Texts

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. A. A. Knopf, 1922.
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, and Lady Margaret Sackville. “Preface”. Selected Poems, Constable, 1919, p. i - x.
Sackville, Lady Margaret, and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. Selected Poems. Constable, 1919.