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Intertextuality and Influence | Emily Faithfull | The novel brings together the fashionable upper-class society which EF
had experienced in her youth, with the question of women's employment which was the burning issue of her working life. She acknowledges the work of... |
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 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Farjeon | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maggie Gee | MG
was six when her five-page, semi-illegible saga on the life of an Indian woman teapicker won third prize in the Typhoo Tea
Handwriting Competition (which despite its name must, she says, have disregarded writing... |
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... |
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 |
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
... |
Reception | Laurence Hope | The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes the influence of Swinburne
and the Pre-Raphaelites on this and later volumes by LH
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Violet Hunt | 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. Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann. 8 |
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... |
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 | Emily Lawless | Lawless made a number of other friends, acquaintances, and admirers through her writing, including Margaret Oliphant
, an early friend and critic, Rhoda Broughton
, George Meredith
, Aubrey de Vere
, Mary Augusta Ward |
Literary responses | Emily Lawless | Algernon Swinburne
wrote Lawless a gushing letter on reading Grania, describing it as one of the most exquisite and perfect works in the language—unique in pathos, humour, and convincing persuasion of truthfulness. Sichel, Edith. “Emily Lawless”. Nineteenth Century, Vol. 76 , pp. 80-100. 85 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ada Leverson | In this novel Valentia Wyburn, another clever woman, has been five years married and has a lover (though their sexual relationship is never particularised) besides her husband. But she breaks with him when she discovers... |
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