Theodore Watts-Dunton

In his obituary for her, Theodore Watts (later Watts-Dunton) , wrote that she did not seek publication before this book, though she had always had a love of literature and poetry, and began to write...

MPD published a biography about the domestic life of Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton , entitled At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney.

MPD recreates the odd household of Watts-Dunton and Swinburne in Putney, the backwoods of West London, and a house called The Pines. Swinburne's imprudences had reduced his health and finances and made...

The internal monologue The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children occupied a bridging position in this volume between the first section of secular poems, and the final shorter section of devotional pieces. Its scriptural...

Theodore Watts-Dunton , in the Athenæum, opened his detailed, considered review by making somewhat heavy weather of the concept of eminence in women, citing Blind's comments on Eliot's essay. He goes on, however, to...

Despite her very high reputation, particularly as a poet, in her own day, MB quickly disappeared from the literary horizon following her death. Disregard of the political aspects of her poetry led to serious misreading...

Theodore Watts gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum. The Westminster Review called the Italian-influenced pieces a series of wonderful picture verses . . . containing each a...

In the 1870s and 1880s AW was mentioned in periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic—in Harper's and Scribner's, for instance, as well as in English publications—as one of the leading women poets of...

In 1880 Theodore Watts described this volume as unequal, and noted that the poet was later inclined to disparage her initial publication.Watts, writing after Elliot's death, judged that The Pythoness...

LCE received little critical attention either during or after her lifetime. The Athenæum obituary by Theodore Watts described her as perhaps the latest noticeable addition to that bright roll of female poets of which Scotland...

He battled his alcoholism with the help of Theodore Watts-Dunton , who intervened when his friend's health teetered dangerously close to death. In September 1879 Swinburne went to live at The Pines, the Putney house...

She made her entry into the city's literary circles with the assistance of Theodore Watts , later Theodore Watts-Dunton, who was a great supporter of her work and later a colleague at the Athenæum...

Vernon Lee described in a diary entry attending a housewarming party at the Websters' in Hammersmith: An enormous crush, of ill-dressed, eccentric literary pumps. I spoke to Wm Rossetti , Watts , Sharp ...

Little is known of LCE 's married or social lives, or of how much, if at all, she moved in literary circles: one writer she knew was Theodore Watts-Dunton . She wrote and illustrated a...

They made a friend of George Meredith some time before 1890 and visited him often. (When he sent them a signed copy of Modern Love, they were inspired to dance a Dionysic dance...