William Ernest Henley

Marguerite Johnson had already become a voracious reader, both of Black writers and of canonical dead white males. Shakespeare , she wrote later, was my first white love. She also enjoyed and respected...

Without children of his own, Barrie had a habit of monopolising the children of friends, for whom he invented elaborate games. Among children so situated were Bevil Quiller-Couch (who was later the fiancé of the...

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

W. E. Henley had warned EN a propos Via Amoris, before this volume appeared, that she ought not to approach the writing of poetry in the market-dominated way that was all right for other...

W. E. Henley called this analysis the best thing written of him by a contemporary critic. In 1949 Hilton Brown , who felt it was to her lasting credit that MR moved so...

Poet and editor W. E. Henley , printing the title essay in the Scots Observer, called it one of the best things it has so far been my privilege to print. Henley introduced...

NB returned to a surname she had used in Familiar Passions for the protagonist of a new novel, Ruffian on the Stair: the almost-centenarian Samuel Mudd.

She contributed a fortnightly budget of literary news to the Critic, taking over the position previously held by William Ernest Henley . LW took an immense pride in her involvement with the periodical...

Her title deliberately misquotes from W. E. Henley 's I was a king in Babylon / And you were a Christian slave. Her dedicatees were both occultists and medical practitioners who ran a kind of...

Given the coincidence of names in LAT 's family, it is hardly surprising that misattributions should have occurred. The British Library Catalogue adds the name of her stepmother, presumably in error, to its listings of...

In addition to reviews, RMW contributed sixteen signed poems, including one entitled The Lost Leader, which was published one week after his death in tribute to the poet William Ernest Henley who had died...