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Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Her husband took great interest in other women and was frequently unfaithful. Having married him somewhat reluctantly, she, too, conducted an emotional life elsewhere: Beauman writes that she became pregnant by the writer Wilfrid Blunt |
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... |
Cultural formation | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Beauman, who uses the title Lovers for one of the chapters in her biography of LCA
, also believes that her subject's sexual development was shadowed by her mother's relationships with Arthur Balfour
(which puzzled... |
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)... |
Friends, Associates | Emilie Barrington | EB
probably first met painter George Frederic Watts
before she was married, at the studio of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
. There is some uncertainty as to the date of EB
's first meeting with Watts... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Emilie Barrington | Commentators have been dismissive of Russell Barrington. Ronald Chapman
calls him a husband of inferior powers. Chapman, Ronald. The Laurel and the Thorn: A Study of G.F. Watts. Faber and Faber. 89 Blunt, Wilfrid Jasper Walter. ’England’s Michelangelo’. H. Hamilton. 159 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Fane | VF
and her fellow-poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
were lovers. He later wrote that many of his earlier sonnets were addressed to her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. My Diaries. A. A. Knopf. 2: 120 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Fane | VF
's love life was a frequent subject of London gossip. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, she was regarded, in her own time, as a late-Victorian Letitia Landon
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | According to Wilfrid Blunt
's Secret Diaries, he and AG
consummated their relationship, which developed through their passionate support for Egyptian nationalist Arabi Bey
. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum. 65 McDiarmid, Lucy et al. “Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography”. Selected Writings, Penguin, pp. xi - xliv, 525. xiv Longford, Elizabeth. “Lady Gregory and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt”. Lady Gregory, Fifty Years After, edited by Ann Saddlemyer and Colin Smythe, Colin Smythe, pp. 85-97. 90-1 |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |