Hilaire Belloc

After the Convent of the Sacred Heart, AW was sent to St Paul's Girls' School . The gentle social pressure which here took the place of draconian discipline meant nothing to her: she wore outrageous...

JS published The Modern Struwwelpeter, illustrated by Ernest Shepard : verses about naughty children getting their deserts. Hilaire Belloc 's Cautionary Tales for Children, 1907, seems as much a model as Heinrich Hoffmann .

RP published a volume entitled First and Second Poems 1912-1925. Hilaire Belloc covered her production costs (again) and supplied a preface which praises her work very highly.

Hilaire Belloc helped her to achieve this by paying for its publication out of his own pocket.

Belloc 's preface quotes a passage from RP and compares it with lines by Rudyard Kipling and by Edith Sitwell to argue Pitter's superiority to either of these distinguished poets in the classical spirit.

BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...

BRP 's son, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René , generally known as Hilaire Belloc (but to his family as Hilary), was born on 27 July 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war. He too...

In 1896 BRP travelled with her son to the United States. He later recalled that she found it appalling as all English people do (a sentiment to which, however, her daughter did...

Following her early conquest of Tennyson , AM went on to develop a large circle of literary acquaintances. Callers on the Meynells at Palace Court included Irish writer Katharine Tynan , Aubrey Beardsley (while he...

MBL resolved early on a writing career, and in 1888 became (through the influence of Cardinal Manning , a family friend), a journalist for the Pall Mall Gazette. Her earnings contributed, in a tradition...

This book was three times reprinted by January 1942. Its full title was I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and of Childhood. MBL seems to have been planning this...

MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...

MBL 's book about her brother 's early years, The Young Hilaire Belloc, appeared posthumously in the USA (edited by her daughter Elizabeth Iddesleigh ). It was never published in England.

MBL 's brother, Hilaire Belloc , her junior by two years, grew up to be a Roman Catholic who felt deeply and wrote inspiringly about his religion, a writer like his grandmother, mother and sister...

This novel centres around the family and professional relationships of a man with a will to power: J. G. (or Sir James) Baron, a newspaper magnate. PF insisted that this character was not based on...