Algernon Charles Swinburne

After her marriage, DS became acquainted with a number of notable literary figures, including George Meredith (who wrote the introduction to The Collected Poems of Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1907), Thomas Hardy (who wrote the...

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...

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.

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

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

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)...

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)...

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 ...

The first poem in the volume, Baal, uses the biblical story of the prophet Elijah (believer in Jehovah) pitted against the pagan priests of Baal. The prayers of the priests alternate with narrative, till...

LMS 's earliest works, which emerged from a romantic sense of beauty, defined her for decades of readers. In the first phase of her writing career, from 1900 to about 1915, she sought the delicate...

Praise for this second public collection was more muted and criticism more probing than before. John Westland Marston , reviewing this volume too for the Athenæum, was still positive, but regretted that most of...

She may have had the help or collaboration of Swinburne during its conception (many years before its eventual publication). They probably met on 17 August 1858 at Wallington in Northumberland. They both stayed there...

Without ever owning the complete works of Théophile Gautier , Alphonse Daudet , Shakespeare , Byron , or Swinburne , she read bits and pieces of them all, and they helped to shape her style...

The novel's title is taken from A. C. Swinburne 's poem Before the Mirror, 1869; VH also includes a quotation from the poem in her book's preliminary pages. Swinburne's verse was dedicated to...

The novel ends with mention of the rioting rapids of the Tyne, a phrase that Swinburne borrowed to end his Tale of Balen (1896).