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Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Shortly moving back to London, DR
contacted an old school friend, Amy Catherine Robbins
(called Jane by her husband, H. G. Wells
), and began socialising with the couple at their home in Worcester... |
Friends, Associates | Rosita Forbes | In FinlandRF
met the national hero Marshal Mannerheim
. Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell. 302 |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | Bagnold's biographer Anne Sebba
writes that try as [EB
] might to belong to the artists' milieu, she could not release her other foot from the smart set. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 148 |
Friends, Associates | Ford Madox Ford | Living with his grandfather Ford Madox Brown
after his father's death, he met many literary great Victorians at an early age. During his early married life he got to know H. G. Wells
, Joseph Conrad |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee | VL
initiated a friendship with H. G. Wells
with a letter admiring his novels. They ended this friendship at the outset of World War I because of diverging political views. Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press. 280-1, 290 |
Friends, Associates | Pamela Frankau | Her aunt Eliza Aria
introduced the very young PF
to many of her older, god-like friends: first of all actress Sybil Thorndike
and writers Michael Arlen
and Osbert Sitwell
. Frankau, Pamela. I Find Four People. I. Nicholson and Watson. 133-4 |
Friends, Associates | Berta Ruck | BR
developed a close personal friendship with the writer E. Nesbit
(mother of her art-student friend Iris Bland
). They vacationed together at Grez-sur-Marne in France, and Nesbit stayed for a week with Ruck's... |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Richardson | Her affair with Wells
ended after the miscarriage, but they remained friends until his death in August 1946. Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 373-5 |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Tynan | At Clarebeg they began holding a literary salon for Irish writers and intellectuals. Their guests included Irish writer Padraic Colum
, his wife Mary Gunning Maguire
(later an eminent literary critic), poet and novelist James Stephens |
Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR
's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Edith Nesbit
and her husband Hubert Bland
, George Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Mannin | EM
entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray
, Louis Marlow
, Ralph Straus
, Norman Haire
, Fenner Brockway
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Dora Russell | Sylvia Pankhurst
enrolled her son as a day-boy at Beacon Hill, and lived nearby while writing The Suffragette Movement; Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, and G. B. Shaw
also visited. The school hosted annual... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird
, E. Nesbit
, Mathilde Blind
, Amy Levy
, and Alice Meynell
. She was also a friend of William Sharp
, Austin Dobson |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Whipple | Other speakers who came to stay were J. B. Priestley
and St John Ervine
, who at first talked like a river in spate and ignored his hostess. Later, however, he too, like Priestley, became... |
Friends, Associates | Stella Benson | SB
became a close friend of the artists Cuthbert
and Lady Eileen Orde
. Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 241 Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan. 244, 245-6 |
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