Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
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Health | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Webster | 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
... |
death | Augusta Webster | Theodore Watts-Dunton
's tribute in the Athenæum recalled a noble band of women represented by George Eliot
, Mrs. Webster, and Miss Cobbe
, who, in virtue of lofty purpose, purity of soul, and deep... |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | Theodore Watts
gave this book a glowing review in the Athenæum. Rigg, Patricia. Julia Augusta Webster: Victorian Aestheticism and the Woman Writer. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 197 Athenæum. J. Lection. 2803 (1881): 229 |
Literary responses | Augusta Webster | 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... |
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