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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis
writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her... |
Dedications | Eliza Lynn Linton | ELL
's novel which appeared in three volumes this year as Ione, dedicated to Swinburne
, was serialized in Temple Bar as Ione Stewart. Anderson, Nancy F. Woman against Women in Victorian England. Indiana University Press, 1987. 172 |
Education | Adrienne Rich | The girls' father also had a strong influence on their education, as he was determined that Adrienne would be a poet and Cynthia would be a novelist. The girls had the run of the family... |
Education | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | ATR
and her sister were educated by a series of governesses in London. It was not until the arrival of Miss Truelock
in 1850 that their father was finally satisfied with a governess's ability... |
Education | Ann Bridge | As a small child she stood out among the family for her quite exceptional naughtiness, which in later years she put down to surplus energy and dramatic ideas. Bridge, Ann. A Family of Two Worlds. Macmillan, 1955. 141 |
Education | H. D. | Following her withdrawal from Bryn Mawr, HD (with Pound
's assistance) embarked on an intensive independent study programme that lasted for five years. During this period she read and studied writers such as William Morris |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mathilde Blind | In 1849, the year of his marriage, he was despatched to Paris to represent the newly formed German republican government . Following the collapse of the revolution, he became a political refugee in Belgium, and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Jay | Buchanan
's notorious literary and personal attack on Swinburne
(titled The Fleshly School of Poetry and glancing also at Dante Gabriel Rossetti
) with the controversy which it generated, took place during his years at... |
Fictionalization | Eliza Lynn Linton | In 1878, ELL
wrote to a relative, True success comes only by hard work, great courage in self-correction, and the most earnest and intense determination to succeed, not thinking that every endeavour is already success... |
Friends, Associates | Walter Pater | From his time at BrasenoseWP
knew Oscar Browning
. In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse
, Algernon Charles Swinburne
, Simeon Solomon
, Oscar Wilde
, Vernon Lee
, A. Mary F. Robinson |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | VF
made her mark on London's social life. She knew Robert Browning
, Algernon Swinburne
, Alexander William Kinglake
, Alfred Austin
, the Duchess of Argyll
, James McNeil Whistler
, and Lillie Langtry |
Friends, Associates | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Anne Thackeray (later ATR
) spent Easter at Richard Monckton Milnes
's home, where she met Swinburne
. Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 134-5 |
Friends, Associates | Mathilde Blind | Other important friends include Dr Louis Mond
, the American Moncure Conway
(who had lost a position at Harvard
for preaching against slavery), Richard Garnett
(who began calling her by her first name in 1870)... |
Friends, Associates | George Meredith | GM
knew the poets Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Algernon Swinburne
—he sometimes stayed with them while in London. He also knew Emma Caroline Wood
, Lucie Duff Gordon
, Leslie Stephen
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie |
Friends, Associates | Jane Ellen Harrison | Moving in London's social and creative circles, JEH
also met Robert Browning
, Walter Pater
, Henry James
, and Alfred Tennyson
(whom she called the most openly vain man I ever met)... |