| Friends, Associates |
Virginia Woolf |
After this VW
saw Ottoline Morrell many times at Garsington and at Ottoline's other salons, where guests included W. B. Yeats
, Aldous Huxley
, Mark Gertler
, and Dorothy Brett
, among many others...
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| politics |
Virginia Woolf |
On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...
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| Literary responses |
Virginia Woolf |
Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms...
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| Reception |
Virginia Woolf |
VW
's professional reputation began to shift at about this time. From the early 1920s, she developed an increasingly strong self-image as an adult woman and writer. More and more, her novels both won praise...
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| Family and Intimate relationships |
Fay Weldon |
FW
's mother, Margaret (Jepson) Birkinshaw, got married at nineteen at least partly because her home was broken up by the successive defection of her father (to a mistress) and mother (back to her own...
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| Family and Intimate relationships |
Mary Augusta Ward |
Through her sister Julia, MAW
became aunt to the novelist Aldous Huxley
; she became in part responsible for his upbringing after his mother's death. She was also his godmother, and he was christened after...
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| death |
Mary Augusta Ward |
It was said that at her death a copy of Limbo, the first publication of her nephew Aldous Huxley
, was found at her bedside. Its opening story incorporates a hostile and no doubt...
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| Fictionalization |
Mary Augusta Ward |
Her nephew Aldous Huxley
depicted her several times in his fiction: in The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, the opening story in his first published volume, Limbo, 1920; again in Eyeless in Gaza...
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| Literary responses |
Mary Augusta Ward |
Critically, MAW
has not fared well since her death, despite her immense popularity in her lifetime and the seriousness with which her contemporaries read her. She was quickly cast as more Victorian than Edwardian...
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| Intertextuality and Influence |
Evelyn Underhill |
Towards the end of her life, during the years that led up to World War Two, EU
became a declared pacifist and began writing tracts in support of that cause. It is unclear precisely...
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| Textual Production |
Iris Tree |
Sitwell included five poems by Tree in the first cycle, eight in the second, and nine in each of the third and fourth cycles. The anthology, which extended to six cycles in all, also included...
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| Textual Features |
Ali Smith |
Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent...
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| Textual Features |
Edith Sitwell |
Wheels was a series in opposition: to the First World War, to the cosiness of the Georgian school of poetry, and to the establishment in general. It drew its revolutionary note from the continued influence...
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| Friends, Associates |
Edith Sitwell |
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
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| Intertextuality and Influence |
Frances Sheridan |
David Garrick
showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan
as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe
long remembered the opening as delightful and...
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