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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. 172 |
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. 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 |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 | 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)... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Neil Harwood | The position of her father
as a journal editor put INH
in contact with several well-known authors of the time. She attended a party with her parents at the house of Dr Westland Marston
... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Ogle | The success of AO
's first novel introduced her to England's literary circles. She knew the BrowningRobert Browning
s, the CarlyleThomas Carlyle
s, the ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
s, Tennyson
, and Swinburne
. She also kept company with Mary Louisa Molesworth
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Meyers, Terry L. “Swinburne Reshapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ’Ashford Owen’”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 31 , No. 1, West Virginia University, pp. 111-15. 111 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | ES
was taken on holiday in the year after her mother died, by Captain
and Lady Jane Swinburne
(parents of the young Algernon Charles Swinburne
), to the Lakes of Westmorland and Capheaton in Northumberland. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. 106 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. |
Friends, Associates | Pauline Johnson | During this visit she was invited to the home of Theodore Watts-Dunton
, where she met Algernon Swinburne
. When Charles G. D. Roberts
met Swinburne two years later, the latter confirmed that PJ
and... |
Friends, Associates | Ouida | Aside from her mother, Ouida
kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth
and William Tinsley
) A. C. Swinburne
, Richard Monckton Milnes
(famed for his large... |