Thynne, Maria, and Joan Thynne. “Introduction”. Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611, edited by Alison D. Wall, Wltshire Record Office, p. xvii - xxxiv.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Bacon | |
Family and Intimate relationships | A. Mary F. Robinson | They were introduced when Darmesteter translated a volume of her verse into French. He was a Jewish-born French rationalist and academic orientalist, Professor of Persian at the Collège de France
(in succession to Ernest Renan |
Family and Intimate relationships | Geraldine Jewsbury | However, the intense jealousy that had early affected the friendship persisted. Around 1846 GJ
began her friendship with the American actress Charlotte Cushman
, who was then visiting Manchester. Much to the frustration of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Janet Hamilton | Of her married life, JH
recollected that she then stole her reading hours from sleep, and that many an hour have I spent in reading, holding the book in one hand, and nursing an infant... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Eleanor Douglas | Her sister Maria
, about twelve years her elder, wrote some remarkable love-letters and was a model for Shakespeare
's Juliet. Thynne, Maria, and Joan Thynne. “Introduction”. Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne, 1575-1611, edited by Alison D. Wall, Wltshire Record Office, p. xvii - xxxiv. xxvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Anne Porden | The possibility of marriage was made more feasible by the deaths of her parents (not because they opposed the match but because she felt responsible for their care). The couple were engaged by early 1823... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Viola Tree | Throughout her life, VT
took direction from her father, the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who had abandoned his job in the family corn-trading business to pursue a career on stage, and had changed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | The youngest of the three girls was christened Sylvia Kingsley after Holman Hunt
's painting Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus (an illustration to Shakespeare
's Two Gentlemen of Verona), but the spelling was changed... |
Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare
were actually written by Francis Bacon
). Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 278-9 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Lennox | She met Sarah Fielding
at Richardson's house, and became friendly also with Henry Fielding
, Saunders Welch
(the philanthropist, who later offered her employment), and Lord Orrery
. She was presumably the Mrs Lenox with... |
Friends, Associates | Winifred Holtby | WH
met Jean McWilliam
at the WAAC unit at Huchenneville. They corresponded throughout Holtby's life, writing to one another as Rosalind and Celia from Shakespeare
's mutually devoted heroines in As You Like It. Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago. 79-81 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | A week later, calling her an amiable lady, he claimed (falsely) that she saw Richardson
as the equal of Shakespeare
. In January 1812 he shocked Henry Crabb Robinson
(who thought this behaviour personally... |
Friends, Associates | Clemence Dane | Toasts were proposed by suffragist Philippa Strachey
and by Ethel Watts
(chair of the Junior Council of the London and National Society for Women's Service
), the latter of whom hoped that in the future... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | Other friends mentioned by her niece and biographer were Fredrika Bremer
, Anna Brownell Jameson
, Frances Power Cobbe
, Thomas Carlyle
, George MacDonald
, Lady Eastlake
, Elizabeth Rundle Charles
, Lady Martin |
Friends, Associates | Vernon Lee |
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