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death | Elizabeth Siddal | Dante Gabriel Rossetti
commemorated ES
in a posthumous painting of her as Dante
's Beatrice, entitled Beata Beatrix. Marsh, Jan. The Legend of Elizabeth Siddal. Quartet Books, 1989. 11 |
death | Charlotte Mew | She shared a tombstone with her sister Anne
, to which she had added a line from Dante
's Purgatorio, translated as Cast down the seed of weeping and attend. Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983. 312 |
Dedications | T. S. Eliot | It was dedicated to Jean Verdenal
, who had recently been killed at the Dardanelles, with some lines from Dante
's Purgatorio. In addition to its title poem, The Love Song of J... |
Education | Evelyn Underhill | She did not take advantage of her opportunity to study theology while at the Anglican foundation of King's, but became interested in religion through reading philsophy and poetry from her father's library. Plotinus
, St Augustine |
Education | John Oliver Hobbes | The education of JOH
(then Pearl Richards) began with an English governess at the family's London home. In her teens she made full use of the educational and cultural resources of the capital. Annie S... |
Education | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Sheila was educated at Hastings, at St Leonard's Ladies' College (almost next-door to her home), from 1896 to 1905. Like many large private schools of the time, this one educated its pupils to eighteen... |
Education | Florence Dixie | FD
's first experience at a convent school (in France) lasted just one week. She later wrote, To her dying day Ijain will never forget that dreary time when she said good-bye to Rorie... |
Education | Freya Stark | Freya had a German governess until the age of eight, and then an Italian governess who stayed until she was fourteen. Izzard, Molly. Freya Stark: A Biography. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. 252-3 |
Education | Flora Macdonald Mayor | Although FMM
's father was, for the most part, more concerned with her fragile health than her academic development, the twin sisters received some home-schooling from their mother to quite a high level, since she... |
Education | Anna Swanwick | Poetry was always important to her. She said that Dante
's Paradiso had changed her life. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 123-4 Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 124 |
Education | Margaret Gatty | Margaret and her sister were not sent to school, but were educated chiefly by her father. One important influence on Margaret was their bachelor uncle William Ryder
(who first got her started on drawing). Another... |
Education | Christina Rossetti | From 1878 to 1880, she took classes on Dante
's Divine Comedy at University College, London
, perhaps in part because she was helping Alexander Grosart
to trace references from Italian poets for his edition... |
Education | Kathleen Nott | Meanwhile KN
read for herself outside the syllabus while she was at Oxford, particularly Dante
and French literature, and composed intellectual biographies of philosophers like Hume
and Kant
. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. 66465 (24 February 1999): 23 Nott, Kathleen. A Soul in the Quad. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. 6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Akhmatova | Anna was with Valeriya Tyulpanova
, a neighbour and a life-long friend; Nikolay was with his brother Dmitry. Nikolay fell madly in love with the young poetess, but she apparently did not share his romantic... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Petrarch | His father, named Petracco or Petraccolo, had been a clerk of the court in Florence before being expelled by the party of the Black Guelphs
(who also expelled Dante
). Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2000. “The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent. |