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Birth | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth Oxenbridge (later Lady Tyrwhit)
was born at a manor called Brede Place (formerly Forde Place), at the village of Brede in East Sussex, into a family of five children (as well as an... |
Cultural formation | Amber Reeves | Born a New Zealander, she clearly regarded herself later in life as English. Her parents were highly educated professionals. Her mother was a suffragist, and both parents became members of the Fabian Society
(founded three... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth von Arnim | Born middle-class and presumably white in Australia when it was part of the British Empire, EA
later lived in England, Germany, Switzerland, and America. Her experiences in each of these places... |
Dedications | G. B. Stern | GBS
dedicated to H. G. Wells
her first-world-war novel Children of No Man's Land. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Education | Dora Russell | |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's later educational endeavours continued through 1904-5, running concurrently with teaching (as the family breadwinner) and increasing political activity. She felt as if this was a private obsession, which would be incomprehensible to anyone... |
Education | Olivia Manning | At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself... |
Education | Fay Weldon | FW
learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Amber Reeves | AR
and the young Fabian
lawyer George Rivers Blanco White
were married; she accepted his proposal because she was pregnant by H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 314 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | RW
had a son by H. G. Wells
: Anthony Panther West
, as a result of an unplanned, extramarital pregnancy. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 35-8 Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. 78, 84 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Richardson | Although Moffatt disapproved of her affair with Wells
, DR
conducted it from their shared apartment. She and Wells both kept the affair a secret. Wells had many affairs, several of them with women writers... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ling Shuhua | During his youth, Chen
spent a decade in Britain, studying literature at Edinburgh University, then moving to the |
Family and Intimate relationships | Iris Tree | Writer, critic, and caricaturist Sir Max Beerbohm
was IT
's half-uncle, the youngest son from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's father's second marriage. Best remembered for his drawings and caricatures of the famous, Beerbohm also wrote... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rebecca West | RW
ended her liaison with H. G. Wells
when she sailed for America on a lecture tour. Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton, 1995. 72 Hammond, John Richard. H. G. Wells and Rebecca West. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. 142 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Cecily Mackworth | CM
later wrote that the search for love was interwoven with many events of her life; she felt her judgement was poor in matters of the heart, and connected this with the loss of her... |