Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911.
prelims
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Sarah Tytler | It was dedicated to J. M. Barrie
, who was now famous as the author of Peter Pan. Tytler, Sarah. Three Generations. J. Murray, 1911. prelims |
Education | Daisy Ashford | In the preface to Daisy's novel, The Young Visiters, J. M. Barrie
describes the young DA
as a girl who read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown-up... |
Employer | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Having much enjoyed nursing, LCA
did her first day as private secretary to the writer J. M. Barrie
, for a promised salary of four or five hundred pounds a year (which, however, proved to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She probably met the handsome Watson
, a novelist who was, like her first husband, an Australian, in 1893 when he attended practices of the cricket team of which he and her second husband were... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's younger sister, Sylvia, later Lady Brooke
, born in 1885, is herself of no minor literary significance. She authored numerous works including two autobiographies, romance novels, and short stories, and claimed J. M. Barrie |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | She had a romantic friendship during the years 1918 and 1919 with Desmond MacCarthy
, who was less than ten years her senior and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Beauman, Nicola. Cynthia Asquith. Hamish Hamilton, 1987. 235ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Barrie
was a famous writer making huge sums of money when LCA
met him. He was about the age of her father, had been unsuccessfully married, and doted on the idea of motherhood and on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Daphne Du Maurier | DDM
's aunt Sylvia du Maurier
(later Sylvia Llewelyn Davies) became a friend of James Barrie
, whose Peter Pan was in part inspired by her five small sons. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | J. M. Barrie
was her godfather. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Egerton | Bright first had a column in the Evening Sun, and later wrote for the Daily Express and the Pall Mall Gazette. He was sub-editor at the Evening Sun and night-editor at the Daily... |
Friends, Associates | Annie S. Swan | She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward
, Lucas Malet
, Lucy Clifford
, Sarah Grand
, Violet Hunt |
Friends, Associates | Lady Cynthia Asquith | As well as her close relationships with Angela Thirkell
and Barrie
, LCA
built a significant friendship with the novelist D. H. Lawrence
(who has been seen as drawing her portrait in The Blind Man... |
Friends, Associates | George Egerton | After the success of her Keynotes, GE
became acquainted with the literary and intellectual world. Among her new acquaintances she expressed admiration for Havelock Ellis
but called W. B. Yeats
a poseur. Egerton, George. A Leaf from the Yellow Book. White, Terence de VereEditor , Richards Press, 1958. 34 |