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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
's collection of previously published reminiscences and literary criticism appeared as From the Porch, dedicated to Rhoda Broughton
. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. From the Porch. Books for Libraries Press, 1971. prelims |
Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 20 |
Fictionalization | Geraldine Jewsbury | Rhoda Broughton
's 1894 novel A Beginner contains a satirical portrait of GJ
in the figure of Miss Grimshaw, who reviews fiction with a tomahawk. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. Geraldine Jewsbury’s Athenaeum Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction. S. Academiae Ubsaliensis, 1986. 32 |
Friends, Associates | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cholmondeley | According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Her literary friends of a generation before her own included George Meredith
, Rhoda Broughton
, and Henry James
. She participated in the friendship of the two last-named by being regularly at Broughton's house... |
Friends, Associates | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was an early member of Mary Cholmondeley
's Give and Take Club
for women writers, and a founding member of another women's luncheon club, the Thirty
. This included women from all walks of... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Howitt | Visitors who stayed with the Howitts at The Elms included Hans Christian Andersen
, Tennyson
, Elizabeth Gaskell
, and Eliza Meteyard
, who wrote as Silver Pen. Their circle also included Charles Dickens |
Friends, Associates | Henry James | HJ
's circle of acquaintance in the world of letters and the theatre was very wide. As well as men of letters such as Edmund Gosse
, it included a great many women writers, among... |
Friends, Associates | Matthew Arnold | MA
was acquainted with Charlotte Brontë
and wrote a poem dedicated to her following her death. He also knew Rhoda Broughton
, Emily Davies
, and Harriet Martineau
. |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
wrote to Charlotte Yonge
a few years later, lamenting: oh! what a pity it is that we are all growing old who have had such happy happy times with one another. Ritchie, Anne Thackeray. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters. Bloom, Abigail Burnham and John MaynardEditors , Ohio State University Press, 1994. 242 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning
, Mary Cholmondeley
, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, Ford Madox Ford
, Thomas Hardy |
Friends, Associates | May Laffan | She exchanged letters with both George Augustin Macmillan
and Sir George Grove
. Her social circle while she was visiting London included a surprisingly large number of literary names. Rhoda Broughton
was a friend of... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | In London ATR
connected or re-connected with friends including Kipling
, Robert Louis Stevenson
, Sidney Lee
, Arnold Bennett
, and Rhoda Broughton
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 260-1, 272 |